A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to
visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into
complaints about stress in work and in life. Offering his guests coffee,
the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of
coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some
plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help
themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:
If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,
leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to
want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and
stress.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you
consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other s cups. Now
consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in
society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do
not change the quality of Life.  Sometimes, by concentrating only on the
cup, we fail
to enjoy the coffee God has provided.

So, don t let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead.

Life happens once, Live it!