A group of graduates, 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, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the simple and cheap ones. It is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, but 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 it even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was COFFEE, not the CUP, but you consciously chose the best cups... Then you began eyeing each other's cups.
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.
You are the miracle, my friend;
Your life either shines a light OR casts a shadow!
Shine a light & enjoy the Coffee!!!
