There are Various motivational stories, which have a valuable lesson wrapped up and presented as a compelling tale. Once in a while, you come across the such motivational story which makes you think and motivate to imbibe the learnings in your life. Many of my blog readers and followers have requested to start posting motivational and inspirational short stories about life.
Life is … like a cup of coffee
The lessons from this motivational story will
help you look at things in different
perspective, lift you up, and make your load a little
lighter.
A group of best friends decided to have their alumni get together at the
residence of one of their favorite university professors. The professor was
very popular among university students. They finalized to make a surprise visit
to professor. All planning was done and on predefined date they visited their
most popular and old university professor’s house.
It was
quite a happy moment for not only professor; but even for the all
friends also as some of them were meeting after a long time. Everyone was
trying to know whereabouts and the developments in their friend’s life after
leaving college. They shared with each other; how did they move ahead in life. There
was quality conversation going on, but somehow the conversation soon diverted
to complaints about work, relationships, ‘stress ‘& ‘tension’ in life.
The
professor offered them coffee and went to kitchen to ask his wife to prepare
coffee for all his students. After 10-15 minutes, his beautiful wife came with
a pleasant smile. One thing was to be noticed that she brought
coffee in different kinds of cups!!! (Crystal cups, glass cups, ceramic cups,
shining ones, some plain looking, some ordinary, some exquisite and some
expensive ones …). The students thought that professor may not have the same
kind of cups and due to large number of guests; his wife has served the coffee
in different cups. When all of them had a cup in hand, The professor said, “If
you noticed, all the nice looking & expensive cups are taken up, leaving
behind the ordinary, plain and cheap ones !!!”
It was
surprising moment, as nobody noticed that there were some extra cups of coffee
and while having their cup, nobody took the ordinary cups and all of them were
left on the serving tray.
The
professor continued, “Every one of you wanted the best
CUPS. While it is, of course normal for you to want only
the best for yourselves, that can also be the source of much of your
dissatisfaction, problems and stress and tension in life. “When all of them had
a cup in hand, The professor said, “If you noticed, all the nice looking &
expensive cups are taken up, leaving behind the ordinary, plain and cheap ones
!!!”
It was
surprising moment, as nobody noticed that there were some extra cups of coffee
and while having their cup, nobody took the ordinary cups and all of them were
left on the serving tray.
All
the friends got confused and were looking towards professor; they could not
understand; what’s the connection with having a coffee in chosen cup with the STRESS and
TENSION of life.
Professor continued further and explained after seeing their
curious face, “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 it hides what we
drink. What 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.”
Always remember one thing, if life is coffee; and jobs, money,
status or position in society & love etc. are the cups! They
are just tools to hold and contain life. The type of cup we have does not
define or change the quality of life we live. Please don’t let the CUPS drive you!!
Enjoy the COFFEE …!”
