A group of graduates, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.  Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

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 had a cup of coffee, the professor said: 'If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the simple 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 subconsciously went for the best cups... You then began eyeing each other's cups.'
 
'Now consider this,' said the professor, 'Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society is 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 on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us. Enjoy your coffee!'
 
The happiest people don't have the best of everything.  They just make the best of everything.

Four things to take note of in life:

1. Live simply.

 
2. Love generously.

 
3. Care deeply.

 
4. Speak kindly.

Shine a light and enjoy your Coffee today!!
 

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