Small story on Stress

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 in 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.

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. 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 do not change the quality of

Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee

God has provided."

So, don't let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead.