<>A group of successful people, at the peak of their careers, all with enviable jobs and social positions, cars and houses, paid a visit to a former college professor. The discussion gradually slipped into how stressful and tiring everyday life is.
The professor asked them if they wanted to drink a good coffee and returned from the kitchen with a large bowl full of coffee and a lot of cups. Some were made of fine porcelain, others of glass, plastic, some looking normal, others very delicate and expensive, some with gilded inserts, others with chipped spindles, and he asked each one to help themselves.
When they all had a cup of coffee in their hands, the teacher said to them: “If you noticed, each of you put coffee in an expensive and fine cup, leaving the simple and cheap cups empty on the table. It’s normal to want the best in life, but that’s precisely the source of the problems and stress you have every day.
<>It doesn’t matter which cup you choose, coffee tastes the same. The cup does not add any quality to the coffee. In most cases it just makes it more expensive or, in other cases, we can’t see what’s actually inside. What you actually wanted was coffee, not the cup, and yet, unconsciously, you chose the most expensive and best cups. And then you started looking at each other’s cup thinking it’s more beautiful than yours.
Life is like good coffee! The job, the money, the career, the car, the house, the clothes, the position in society are the cups. They just help us live our lives, but they are not life. The clothes we have, the position in society and money do not mean life. I don’t define what life means. On the contrary, most people who have a lot are envious of others who have more and fail to enjoy what they have.
Sometimes, focusing only on the cup, we forget to enjoy the coffee. Enjoy the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people are not the ones who have the most things. The happiest people know how to enjoy as much as possible what they have, where they have, in the present moment. They make life beautiful.”
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