My CAN-I Thought Process!: What do you enjoy

January 09, 2006

What do you enjoy - The Coffee or The Cup?

Group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work life

Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap 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 better cups and are 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."

So folks, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead.

For me COFFEE is very important and the CUP is also important. I would say that I would like to enjoy "A NICE CUP OF FRESH AROMATIC COFFEE".

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at January 9, 2006 05:20 AM Perma Link

Comments

Ram, a nice lesson for many, i felt shamefull that some times even i do the same thing seeing the cups rather than enjoying the coffee, well shall take a serious note of it.
And hope i remember the Cup and Coffee example always in life. Thanks a lot.

& Felt good seeing u'r post after a month, good comeback.
*Hemu*

Posted by: Hemu at January 11, 2006 05:34 AM

Hi Hemu,

I have been in India and practically enjoying it a lot. I am kind of really busy trying to find the right girl to get married. Looks like its gonna take some more time. I will try to start posting more content as and when I get a chance.

Posted by: Ramdhan Yadav at January 11, 2006 10:54 PM

Hey Ram, seems u r looking for girl to get married, well my best wishes to u, hope u meet the dream girl soon and get married.
Cheersssssssssssss
*Hemu*

Posted by: Hemu at January 31, 2006 10:21 PM

Ph I just love coffee, It's the coffee that I love more than the cup itself.

Well great article there mate, do keep us updated on your wedding. :-)

Posted by: Endurer at July 26, 2006 08:00 AM

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with pebbles, about 2" in diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full, and they agreed that it was.

So the professor then picked up a box of shingle and poured it into the jar. He shook the jar lightly and the shingle, of course, rolled into the open areas between the pebbles.

Again he then asked the students again if the jar was full, and they agreed it was.

The students laughed. The professor then picked up a box of dry sand and poured it into the jar, and shook it, and of course, the sand filled up everything else.

"Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognise that this is your life. The pebbles are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, your children - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The shingle is the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff."

"If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the shingle or the pebbles. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal."

"Take care of the pebbles first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

But then...

A student then took the jar which the other students and the professor
agreed was full, and proceeded to pour in a can of beer. Of course the beer filled the remaining spaces within the jar making the jar truly full.

The moral of this tale is:

That no matter how full your life is, there is always room for BEER.

Posted by: Mike Hinton at March 14, 2007 06:59 AM