Enjoy the coffee!

DesiInCT · 12-15-2005, 04:00 PM

A 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 and 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 friends, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead.

shimshimhada · 12-15-2005, 04:04 PM

But for some reason, coffee just tastes better in a nice mug.

Squawks · 12-15-2005, 04:14 PM

A nice anecdote.

puck724 · 12-15-2005, 05:51 PM

very nice. puts things in perspective...

Petercat · 12-15-2005, 06:00 PM

No matter the mug, coffee is pretty damn nice on my way to work in my e90.

DesiInCT · 12-15-2005, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by shimshimhada

But for some reason, coffee just tastes better in a nice mug.

I agree with you most of the time .. but I also some times TRY to just enjoy the coffee. I too have a long way to go before I can ignore the mug.

MCS · 12-16-2005, 11:29 AM

you can burn your hands with a crappy paper cup! Or worse ... then sue McDonalds

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shimshimhada Brigadier General 493 Rep 4,838 Posts Drives: Portal Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Portal iTrader: (2)	But for some reason, coffee just tastes better in a nice mug.
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Petercat Cat Herder 9 Rep 274 Posts Drives: LR3, again... Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Mpls, MN iTrader: (0)	No matter the mug, coffee is pretty damn nice on my way to work in my e90. __________________ Waiting for my e93.
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