Cup OR Water?
Very enlightening :)
*thanks to Ms Snooze for the article link
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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 the water
in it."
*thanks to Ms Snooze for the article link
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 the water
in it."
yes, it just puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
Posted by
Little Miss Snooze |
12:27 PM
indeed it does... very enlightening
Posted by
ShutterBug |
11:13 PM