Guest guest Posted August 17, 2007 Report Share Posted August 17, 2007 Excellent message..Mr.Nair On 8/17/07, Mohan Nair <raghaveeyam wrote: A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together tovisit their old university professor.Conversat ion soon turned intocomplaints about stress in work and 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 hot 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, leavingbehind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to wantonly 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 youconsciously went for the best cups and were 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 ofLife doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we failto enjoy the coffee in it. " Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead. Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2007 Report Share Posted August 18, 2007 Jai Sreekrishan Thank you Shri Mohanji for sharing this. This is is what is heppening in day to day life. Everyone wants the best for themsleves and are literally running for the same- the result we never get time to enjoy the life. Moral of the story according to me try to find happiness in whatever we have. It is not that we have to give up trying for more and more wealth/fame, but let us not forget to thank HIM for whatever HE has given and enjoy the same as well. Humbly SyamalaMohan Nair <raghaveeyam wrote: A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together tovisit their old university professor.Conversat ion soon turned intocomplaints about stress in work and 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 hot 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, leavingbehind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to wantonly 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 youconsciously went for the best cups and were 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 ofLife doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we failto enjoy the coffee in it."Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead. Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how. Sick sense of humor? Visit TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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