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A very good message / resolution which can be adopted by all and one to reduce the daily stress that one unnecessarily adds to the mind knowingly / unknowingly.
Regards
From: Alok Tholiya [atholiya@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:47 PM
To: Jain Matrimonials; menow; MIFAC yahoogroup; RESORTS TIMESHARE; Santacruz Civic Forum; CSEPI; CAI yahoogroupps
Subject: new year resolution.....we shall go only for real thing and not for its packaging..
Coffee or the mug
Be it elections and selecting a candidate, or for selecting a life partner or .... or .. we go for their packaging / presentation and not for real they...and then we repent....
Be it elections and selecting a candidate, or for selecting a life partner or .... or .. we go for their packaging / presentation and not for real they...and then we repent....
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.
Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
The professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been 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 best cups and were 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."
Don't let the cups drive you in the New Year...
Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
The professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been 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 best cups and were 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."
Don't let the cups drive you in the New Year...
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