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Enjoy Your Coffee < Back  
May-16-07 01:22 AM  jrball   tags: 
 
~ Enjoy
Your Coffee My Friend
~

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 but 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, 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 began 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 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 my friends ~
   ¯ ©
 
jr~ ~.~  ;-)
 
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Comment from: NESPIRINA Jul-6-07 11:32 AM    
JR you have really hit the nail on the head here....I am a tea drinker but the sentiment is still the same...Love it.



Comment from: Imagika Jun-29-07 03:54 AM    
Isn't it possible that some of them looked for the prettier cups, as they don't much like coffee? :) Just another way of looking at something. I agree that most people tend to judge a book by its cover.



Comment from: darkfaerie47 May-25-07 05:50 PM    
Wow! jrball, This is a really great thing you've posted. It should make a lot of ppl think about their lives, and what they have and strive in their everyday lives. And what every little gesture they makes or see someone else make, will make them think about. I'll bet, a lot of members will have this on their minds now for a bit. I know I will. But, then, I tend to think that way anyway. Lol. This was very nice.



Comment from: resurrected1 May-18-07 01:11 PM    
Well said! I do so love coffee, lol!!! Pour it straight into my cupped hands, fine with me ;-)



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