hey guys... sorry that my blog is turning into one with more inspirational posts than my personal update but what i post are still what i am feeling and thinking currently... so everything here is still me :)
i have read the below article/story before but it didn't trigger as much thoughts as it has now...
now that i have started to work and begin my new phase in life...
hope all of you who are working or going to work will give the meaning of the story some thought and enjoy the break and coffee that you are having at the moment...
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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 larget port of coffee and an assortment of cups made of: Porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some ordinary looking, some expensive, some exquisite.
He told them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap looking 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 best cups and worse, you 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."
The happiest people don't have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything.
1. Live simply.
2. Love generously.
3. Care deeply.
4. Speak kindly.
5. Leave the rest to God.
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So folks, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead... :)
no matter how busy or stressed you are.. do not under-estimate the power and result of taking a break... the break will work wonders and may allow you to see some lights that you are unable to see before the break!!
" The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems,but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect."
hence.... LET'S TAKE A BREAK NOW!!
but do not tell your boss i told you to if you got caught.... hee ;)
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