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 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 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 began eyeing each other's cups.
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.
"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
26 comments:
Make i be first now!
Good. Now ima go read the post!
Oh my God! Ola...that lil thing on the hand..at first i thought it was a coffee grain..only to look closely and see that it's a baby! Or am i lyin'...somebody help me look!
Eish..this post..i dont even know what to say. It's very true. All we want in Life is the best of everything. knowing very well that we'll need to strive to achieve that everything. And it all calls for that stress and all...
Oh my...for a minute i had thought of distroying all the new and expensive cups i have in my cabbinet. But then, will it help? No!
Very nice post. Ima go read again.!
I changed from reading again, and concetrated on the lil thing on the hand. I used to not understand what it meant by 'Our life/future lies in the palms of our hands''....dammmnnn! now i know.
Thanx Ola for the enlightnment..
Dammnnit! Where's everybody in Blogville. Does that mean i got Ola's house to my self? Oh my...feels great! She's not even here. Ima go search for some stuff to steal...ermmm...where do i start?...the bedroom..yes the bedroom...i start with the shoe cabinet...yes these red stillettos...and these slippers...yeah i love them...dammnnit! somebody's knockin'..ima run!
Jaybabe, craze!
Canu imagine evading Ola's privacy like dat? imma tell her when she gets back!
i'll come back to read tha post properly, still doing my early morning blog rounds.
If only things are as simple as it sounds, then the world will definitely be a better place :)
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......
I've read that somewhere before and each time it makes me rethink and prioritize what's most important to me. Nice post babe.
Nice Post gurl........really got me thinking.
am so guilty of wanting the best CUP, am sure am apart of that group of people
but am working on it
been meaning to holla at you
just busy, u know??
WELL SAID
thanks
Yaah its very possible .. we can still have coffee without cups...Ie Life without Money, Jobs etc.
But as cups make coffee enjoyable...
Those worldly stuff are also needed to make life interesting
but what most people fail is how to balance the two...Am i right?
Absolutely true!
Nice post Ola.
Very true and very nice.
I can believe I was late to this party...and all the while I thought I had left a comment or two...Oh my! Jaybabe beat me to the first position...
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Even when we choose those we want to be associated with...we take the same approach. We need to take the time and look inside the cup...it just might not be coffee...
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Sorry I was late...I lost my key to my car...
@ jAYBABe
oya disappear by fire. The lil thing in the hand is a BABY. we all looked like that at a point in life. THe lil baby symbolizes LIFE. No matter how small it is, it should be appreciated.
@ manda, thanks 4 stopping by
@ ugo, maybe maybe not..
@eddie hmmmmmwhat?
@castle....such is life
@lurlar, u know life is easy, we humans just make it hard.
@ diary... whatz gwan? we are all guilty of wanting da best of everything
@ kafo... how life?
@ gerald, u cud be right
@ aijay and oracle....At times we need to be alerted about the simple things going on around us. It's so little and meaningless to us whereas it's one of our biggest probs.
@ opeke
lost da key to ur car?? abi ermmm ermmm don put u unda house arrest
Abeg I no bi Madea o...
YEAH....Thats the proffessor..a great thinker..Today we just do not have proffessors..
A lot of plagiarism...
Hmmmmm..just passing by to see whats new....LOL..LYK THIS ROOM..
Hey Ola!! I am so rocking your blog!! Thanx for the enlightening! Cheers!
You are now my official 'bestest' friend by force or by fire. I so like your blog.
hahahahahah@mommy okay o
@opeke...no be popo put u unda house arrest now sebi na dat boi .... the one wey i c with u unda d tangerine tree
@eddie, it's always nice to have u here bro
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