A group of graduates who have made achievements in their careers meet to visit their old university professors.
The conversation soon turned into a complaint about the pressure of work and life. The professor went to the kitchen to provide coffee for his guests. When he came back, he took a big pot of coffee and various cups-porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some ordinary, some expensive, some exquisite-and told them to drink coffee themselves.
The conversation soon turned into their own complaints about the pressure of work and life. When entertaining these guests with coffee, the professor went to the kitchen to bring a big pot of coffee, took out all kinds of coffee cups-ceramic, plastic, glass, crystal, ordinary-looking, expensive and exquisite-and let them pour their own coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor said:
When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor said:
"If you notice, all the beautiful and expensive cups have been taken away, and the rest are ordinary and cheap. Although it is normal that you only want the best, it is also the source of your problems and pressures. "
"If you pay attention, you will find that all the beautiful and expensive cups have been picked away, leaving only the ordinary and cheap ones. Of course, everyone's just need is normal, but this is also the root of your problems and stress. "
"Please rest assured that the cup itself will not increase the quality of coffee. In most cases, it is just more expensive, and in some cases it even hides what we drink. "
"To be sure, the cup itself has nothing to do with the quality of coffee. In many cases, cups will make coffee more expensive. In some cases, we can't even see what we want to drink. "
"What all of you really want is coffee, not cups, but you consciously choose the best cup ... and then you start staring at each other's cups.
"In fact, what you really want is coffee, not cups, but you all subconsciously choose cups and observe the cups that others get."
"Now think about it: life is coffee; Work, money and social status are all cups. They are just tools to accommodate life, and the types of cups we have cannot be defined, nor can they change the quality of our life. Sometimes, just focusing on the cup, we can't enjoy coffee. Taste coffee, not cups! Don't let the cup drive you ... but enjoy the coffee. "
"Now imagine: if life is coffee in a cup, work, wealth and social status are those cups. They are just tools to maintain life, and have not changed the quality of life. Sometimes, when we pay too much attention to the cup, we forget to taste the coffee given by God. So, don't be a slave to the cup ... enjoy the coffee in the cup. "