The story of coffee mugs.

( Stories Retold )

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.

All of them have a lot of things in common- their school, background, success, wealth, power, position and a lot of stress and poor life quality.

The professor went inside the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee for them. He had also brought an assortment of cups – some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – and asked them to help themselves to the coffee.

When each of them had their cup of coffee in hand, the professor looked at them, smiled and said:

“Look, all the expensive cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.

That’s exactly what you have done with your life. You have always gone for the best and neglected the life itself.

Do the cups add any quality to the taste of coffee. All of you wanted the taste of coffee. But as per your habbit, you have subconsciously gone for the best cups. That’s OK. But your problem started when you began eyeing each other’s cups.

Sometimes, by going for the best cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee.

Now please, sip your coffee while it’s still hot. Savor the coffee, not the cups!”

Life is the bitter sweet coffee. It’s always beautiful. Our wealth and position in society are the cups. They are merely the containers so that we can enjoy the hot, bitter and sweet life.

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.