if life is a coffee...

Have you noticed why most people (I write: MOST) feel tired, stressed out and burned out despite the fact that we enjoy the benefits of comfortable living because of technological advancements?

Personally, I was not an exemption to this case. I was one of those people who always would feel unsatisfied and exhausted whenever troubles come into my life.I often asked myself why, but there were no answers. Only until I had a social immersion in one of the poorest places that I finally began my enlightenment.

Well, sometimes we really forget the core of our purpose of living and that our thinking is clouded by the materialism and physical appearance. Let me quote the little Prince as a reminder, "What is essential is invisible to the eye."

No, I did not become a perfect person after that, but at least the ranting lessened. That i finally vowed to a simple living - that is having only what is necessary for my life. When there are times I forget, I am reminded by this short story that my friend sent me through e-mail. I think you will also find it very familiar. Enjoy reading and contemplating. Here it goes:

If life is a coffee...

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old University of Notre Dame lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."

"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."

"Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it." Cups for Coffee?