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| Friday, September 02, 2005 |
| Lessons in Life |
A group of working adults got together to visit their
University lecturer. The Lecturer was happy to see
them. Conversation soon turned into complaints
about stress in work and life.
The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to
get an assortment of cups - some porcelain, some
in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking
and some looked rather expensive and exquisite.
The Lecturer offered his former students the cups
to get drinks for themselves. When all the students
had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive
cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and
cheap ones. While it is normal that you only want
the best for yourselves, that is the source of your
problems and stress. What all you wanted was
water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for
the better cups."
"Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs,
money and position in society are the Cups. They
are just tools to hold / maintain Life, but the quality
of Life doesn't change."
"If we only concentrate on the Cup, we won't have
time to enjoy / taste the Water in it." |
posted by Lawrence Yash Lee @ Friday, September 02, 2005   |
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