The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything!
Let me begin with a story...
A group of friends decided to have their alumni get together at the residence of one of their favorite university professor. The professor was very popular among university students and had been mentor for many of them. They finalized to make a surprise visit to professor. All planning was done and on predefined date they visited their most popular and old university professor’s house.
It was quite a happy moment for not only professor; but even for the all friends because some of them were meeting after a long time. Everyone was trying to know whereabouts and the developments in their friends life after leaving college. They shared with each other, how they moved ahead in life. Few became a good leaders having senior positions in corporate world; whereas few were doing good in the business world. All of them had got married and having wonderful family. Everyone had his/her own timing of life in achieving the milestones. There was quality conversation going on, but somehow the conversation soon diverted to complaints about work, relationships, ‘stress‘ & ‘tension’ in life.
The professor offered them coffee and went to kitchen to ask his wife to prepare coffee for all his students. After 10-15 minutes, his beautiful wife came with a pleasant smile.?One thing was to be noticed that she brought coffee in different kinds of cups (crystal cups, glass cups, ceramic cups, shining ones, some plain looking, some ordinary, some exquisite and some expensive ones). The students thought that professor may not have the same kind of cups and due to large number of guests; his wife has served the coffee in different cups.
When all of them had a cup in hand, The professor said, “If you noticed, all the nice looking & expensive cups are taken up, leaving behind the ordinary, plain and cheap ones”
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It was surprising moment, as nobody noticed that there were some extra cups of coffee and while having their cup, nobody took the ordinary cups and all of them were left on the serving tray.
The professor continued, “Every one of you wanted the best CUPS. While it is, of course normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that can also be the source of much of your dissatisfaction, problems and stress and tension in life.”
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups!
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way. Happiness only happens for those who cry and those who hurt, for only then can they appreciate the importance of people who touch their lives.
- Douglas Clegg
I needed some inspiration tonight so I’m reading your posts. You are a great storyteller. Thanks for the reminder to be grateful and savor the coffee, not the cup it is in.
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3 年Thank you Shivaraj Naregal for appreciating my thoughts. I appreciate it.
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3 年Hi Shivaraj, Great pleasure to see another thought provoking post from you. I agree with you 100% because from my experience in many of the normal restaurants I found preparations much better than the costly restaurants I visited. Your post is like a reminder. Many of us truly believe in what the professor said but sometimes people get carried away for two reasons one is the quality of old cup which should not be questioned and second is the pleasure it gives in enjoying coffee in a good cup. People who believe in the philosophy of Professor are balancing the imbalances created by some people. Nevertheless we still have many good people around, like you on this planet so let us cheer up and enjoy another cup of coffee. But where is our Professor!
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3 年Excellent, this I thoroughly agree with.
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3 年An excellent story that explains the secret behind "happiness" in a vey simple, yet powerful way!