Life I a Cup of Coffee
Group of alumni, highly etablihed in their career, got together to viit their old univerity profeor. The converation oon turned into complaint about tre in work and in life. Offering hi guet coffee, the profeor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an aortment of cup - porcelain, platic, gla, crytal, ome plain looking, ome expenive, ome exquiite - telling them to help themelve to the coffee.
When all the tudent had a cup of coffee in hand, the profeor aid,“If you noticed, all the nice looking expenive cup were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap one. While it i normal for you to want only the bet for yourelve, that i the ource of your problem and tre.
What all of you really wanted wa coffee, not the cup, but you conciouly went for the bet cup and were eyeing each other’ cup.
Now conider thi: Life i the coffee and the job, money and poition in ociety are the cup. They are jut tool to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life. Sometime, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God ha provided. So, don’t let the cup drive you ... enjoy the coffee intead.”
一群毕业生，各自的事业都已有所建树，相约一起去看望他们的大学教授。谈话一会儿就变成了各自对工作生活压力的抱怨。教授去厨房端来一大壶咖啡招待这些客人，拿出各式各样的咖啡杯——陶瓷的、塑料的、玻璃的、水晶的，有普通的、有价值不菲的、有做工精致的——让他们自己挑。[由Www.haozuowen.com整理]
当所有学生手中都拿了咖啡杯之后，教授发话了：“如果你们注意一下，就可以发现所有好看的贵的杯子都给挑走了，剩下的只是那些普通的和便宜的。当然，每个人都想给自己挑到那个最好的，这很正常，但这也正是你们的问题和压力根源之所在。
其实你们真正想要的是咖啡，而不是杯子，但你们却又都下意识去挑选最好的杯子，并观察别人拿到的杯子。
试想：如果生活是杯中的咖啡，工作、财富和社会地位就是那些杯子。它们只是维持生活的工具而已，并不改变生活质量。有时候，我们在过于关注杯子的同时却忘了去品味上帝赐予的咖啡。所以，不要成为杯子的奴隶……好好地享受品味杯中的咖啡。”