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Life as coffee

1310 views. 2011-12-14 15:35

Life as Coffee

By Lance Muller | June 2, 2008

A group of college alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university Professor.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the Prof. went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups:
porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them
to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the Prof. said “If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. That all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other’s cups.”

“Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.”

So friend, don’t let the cups drive you…enjoy the coffee instead.

I believe  this passage will help a lot of student who are facing the problem of finding a satisfaying job.So i share it with all you guys on my blog.We always say it's too hard to position ourself.we even get confused about what kind of job is better>OL?or Teacher?or decent job?But anyway,hwo do we define decent job?well paid?Annual holidays?staff benefits?We definetly forgort the reason we start to looking for jobs in the fist place.

Think about what you ultimately want?Cup of coffee?

 

Post comment Comment (4 replies)

Reply heai88 2011-12-14 16:25
Thank you for sharing, we do need to read such inspiring blog in our life sometimes, it likes a kindly reminder for me, thanks again.
Reply samscri 2011-12-15 01:42
"if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups"----It's a good metaphor!
Reply ac2smart 2011-12-15 12:46
samscri: "if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups"----It's a good metaphor!
yeah
Reply ac2smart 2011-12-15 12:48
heai88: Thank you for sharing, we do need to read such inspiring blog in our life sometimes, it likes a kindly reminder for me, thanks again.
Yeah.it's really helpful>ani i think dioenglish.com is great place for us to exchange ideas sharing insights

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