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A group of working adults got together to visit their University
lecturer. The lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon turned
into complaints about stress in work and life. The Lecturer just smiled
and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups - some porcelain,
some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather
expensive and exquisite.
The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to
get drinks forhemselves. When all the students had a cup in hand with
water, the Lecturer spoke: "If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive
cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
While it is normal that you only want the best for
yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all
you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for the
better cups."
"Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs,
money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold/maintain
Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."
"If we only concentrate on the cup, we won't have time
to enjoy the water in it." |
