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 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."
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