Enjoy the coffee

I read it somewhere and cant hold it back. Wanted to share, so here it goes -

"A group of alumini, 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 hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you will notice, all the nice looking and expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups. The source of your problems and stress is that you want only the best for yourselves. Remember, if life is coffee, then the jobes, 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."


The bottomline is that GOD makes the coffee and man chooses the cups. Life is about finding out about right and wrong, trying and failing, wining and losing. Failure should not hinder us from becoming happy.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness.