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. Offering his guest coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups, procelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive and exquistite.
He told his guest, to help themselves to the coffee. After everyone 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 normal for you want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases, it is just more expensive, and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup. But you can consciously went for the best cups.. and then you began eyeing each other's cup to see who had the best one. Now consider this..Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Speak kindly. Care deeply. Love generously."
that's the video we watch in the class. yeah it's inspiring and motivate us that live is simply but we make our live complicated. we should speak kindly but our situation make us didn't speak kindly. and the most important things is care deeply and love generously. for me everything is important in our lives but care and love is important because without two of them we're nothing. we are alone and doesn't know anything in our lives. we can see that our parents, teacher, and friend are the example where we can find the care and love.
but sometimes, we forgot to live simply. enjoying our live because of our job, studying, money and position society. why do we need to live stress because of that?? we just need to enjoy our lives, and think positive.
"No MatTer hOw fAr YoU hAVe gONe On wRonG rOaD,TuRn bACk." -Turkish proverb
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