A wonderful article

Dear Friends
This story was forwarded to me, Really  a wonderful article saying a lot in short.

 

 

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.”

 

                                                            -Mother Teresa