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A group of  Engineers, 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 made of Porcelain, Plastic, Glass, Crystal, some ordinary looking, some expensive, some exquisite.

He told them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap looking ones. While it is but 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 worse, you were eyeing each other's cups. Now if life is coffee , then the jobs, 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." 

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

 
19 comments on "LIFE AND COFFEE"
nice story.. reality of todays life..keep posting
  Commented by  MD ASIF ALAM, Assistant Project Manager, U foam Pvt. Ltd.    | 12 09 2010 07:59:52 +0000
Nice Stories............ Really Touchable.......  Keep Posting......
  Commented by  Nohar Singh Dhruv, Assistant Engineer, PMGSY    | 12 09 2010 06:38:17 +0000
Thanks for sharing such a nice article Mr. Manoj...
The last paragraph is really nice...
  Commented by  Adhi Saravana Kumar, Business Analyst, Franklin Templeton Services    | 07 08 2010 05:39:43 +0000
Good one.. life awakening story. Keep posting more stories like this. 
In todays life, stories are the only way left, to guide & show the right path for all. REALLY WONDERFUL.............
  Commented by  rakeshbhatnagar, GM Projects., wig brothers india pvt.ltd.    | 06 14 2010 17:04:28 +0000
MANOJ,
GREAT KEEP POSTING SUCH THINGS ALTHOUGH ALL ARE AWARE ABOUT SUCH THINGS BUT FORGET IN TODAYS RAT RACE.THANKS 
  Commented by  Greeshma Reddy, Regional Marketing Manager, eInflexion Pte Ltd    | 06 14 2010 06:55:25 +0000
Excellent..Manoj...nicely said!!! This makes everyone think..on life and their importance.. keep up n get going... thanks
  Commented by  Ravindra Sharma, Managing Consultant, CHEF-India    | 06 14 2010 06:01:35 +0000
I have read it earlier as well Manoj, yet thanks

This is why I have always tried to convey "Money is at best a tool" not a goal.
  Commented by  Dr Ali Ahmad, Medical Superintendent/Director, Surbhi Hospital    | 06 13 2010 10:19:23 +0000
Thanks for the referral Jyoti
Mr Manoj, as usual a very good and eye opener article, keep up the good work
  Commented by  Vipin Bhasin, Private Equity/Hedge Fund/VC-Manager, Indian Investment Co.    | 06 12 2010 14:31:45 +0000
Great job Manoj...
  Commented by  SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, PROJECT MANAGER, UNITY TELECOM INFRASTRUCTURE LTD.    | 06 12 2010 13:21:33 +0000
I like it, Manoj.
It's refreshing to all .
  Commented by  Manmath Patil, MBA/PGDM student, Mohol College Pune    | 06 12 2010 07:30:15 +0000
Thank you for sharing such a valuable and factual story
  Commented by  Rathin Deb, Resident Manager, Tower Infotech Ltd.    | 06 12 2010 05:55:20 +0000
Excellent Manoj. Please keep posting such interesting ones. Very practical and probably will apply to all of us.
  Commented by  akshaya bhatia, Program Manager (GM Projects-IT), fsl    | 06 12 2010 04:58:14 +0000
Nice observation, but at times coffee is more enjoyable if the cup or container is stylish and beautiful as well, besides of course, the quality of the coffee. Packaging is surely also important. A hungry person will be satiated by food of any taste but if choice is offered to have delicious food served in style, he would naturally prefer that. That is why there is importance of style and fashion in social circles. Men and women prefer beautiful and handsome spouses which are also compatible and good natured. Every one is full of multiple desires and that is true life.
   
  Commented by  Nitin M Aras, Head/VP/GM-Tech. Support, Wintech Taparia Limited    | 06 12 2010 04:21:26 +0000
Fantastic.....
  Commented by  Mohammad Bakhsh, Project Leader/Managing Consultant, Freelancer    | 06 12 2010 03:40:01 +0000
 Mr Manoj,We do not know how to enjoy.This funda one can apply in worsening every day relationships.
  Commented by  NATTERAJA R. ARIKRISHNAN, Area Sales Manager, HPL INDIA LTD, CHENNAI    | 06 11 2010 16:55:35 +0000
Well Mr.Manoj Kumar, it is very nice of you for having presented good moral to follow. 
  Commented by  Jyoti Chetani, Freelancer, Equity Research/Analytics    | 06 11 2010 16:44:49 +0000
Good 1, Keep postings.
  Commented by  Abhishek Gupta, Recruitments, on break    | 06 11 2010 16:42:27 +0000
amajing
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