If life is coffee...

Have you noticed that as we get along in life and career, over a period of time, we change the way we look at things. Sometimes even we are surprised about how much we have changed. Most people ( like me!) get their minds coloured by events, people & experiences.

In the race to achieve what we want, slowly we get addicted to the struggle. We get so intoxicated with the ladder that took us to wherever we are now that we don't pause to relish what we have achieved. We strive to outgrow the ladder. We forget why we started the race in the first place. The relentless race takes us along, the momentum carrying us through it all.

Think about this...

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 hot 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 each of 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 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. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

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