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Editor’s note: This is one of my all time favorites because it’s just so true and personal. We spend our lives chasing and acquiring things that we thing will matter to others. But will they matter to us? I won’t spoil the story below with rhetoric but feel free to use the referrer at the bottom so that you can send this story or any other on DailyKindness to your friends and family. Be well, KindHearts.
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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 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.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began eyeing each other’s cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us.”
God brews the coffee, not the cups………. Enjoy your coffee!
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.”
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
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4 Comments
Debra Rincon Lopez
THIS STORY SHOULD BE TOLD BY ALL IN COMPANIES AND JUST TO SEE WHAT THEY THINK OF THEMSELVES AFTERWARDS? IT’S A GREAT LEARNING LESSON FOR ALL TO LEARN FROM.
18 Jul 2010 06:07 pm
welsie lopez
the “COFFEE”, “MARBLE”, “TEDDY’S STORY” and “THE CHILD AND THE PARK BENCH” are equally ‘best’ stories i’ve ever read.
19 Jul 2010 04:07 am
ivy cantago
you have a very GREAT STORY!i love it….so many lessons tackled.
19 Jul 2010 04:07 am
charlene
This is a good story that we all should share . Its shows us that we rely on material things to makes us happy , when truly its what on the inside of us that should show through. You really make us think so I’m trilled with these stories
05 Aug 2010 05:08 pm