This is a little short story that MooMoo read online... she finds it pretty interesting and would like to share... ^=^
All about the "COFFEE" and NOT The CUP!
Life is like a cup of COFFEE....
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversations soon turn 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.
He told his guests to help themselves to the coffee. After everyone had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said...
"If you have noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups have been 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 all your problems and stress. Be assured that the cups add no quality to the coffee. In most cases, it is 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 you begin eyeing each other's cups to see who had the best one. Now consider this... Life is the coffee; 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.
Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything."
....Live Simply (u mean stop shopping and stop drinking bubble tea?!? haha...)
....Speak Kindly (this reminds me of the sentence I read in my colleagues' email footer... *)
....Care Deeply (just so not MooMoo... hahah...)
....Love Generously (trying hard... difficult to practise unconditional 'LOVE'... ^=^)
This is not the 1st time reading this article but I still like it a lot.... Will try to focus on the COFFEE... actually I don't really mind the cups, I use disposable cups. kekeke....
* My colleagues' email footer read...
"Don't say anything if you got nothing nice to say"...
Then, my another colleague asked... Is that why nobody talk to her?!?.... err...
-- I tried practising this and people think MooMoo is angry wor when she's quiet... hahaha....
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