Saturday, June 23, 2007
Living Life
Got this from a bulletin posted by wispie on friendster. Quite meaningful. Hope you guys will find it meaningful as well.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 porcelain, 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
forthemselves.
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."
- Mother Teresa
--- posted @ 3:59 PM ---
