Cup or Coffee?
Friday, May 18, 2007
Received this email and can't help but feel that i had gone for the cup.
New job - note easy here as in there is no fixed system, new team to work with and a new team to build.
i feel bad that i am unable to stay back and contribute (coz i wanna have life after work) ... somehow, i dun feel bad if i leave on the dot in my previous job... hmm. hope i wont become a workaholic.
read the story below:-
VERY SIMPLE STORY BUT VERY PROFOUND MESSAGE
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were 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 better cups and are 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... enjoy the coffee instead.
New job - note easy here as in there is no fixed system, new team to work with and a new team to build.
i feel bad that i am unable to stay back and contribute (coz i wanna have life after work) ... somehow, i dun feel bad if i leave on the dot in my previous job... hmm. hope i wont become a workaholic.
read the story below:-
VERY SIMPLE STORY BUT VERY PROFOUND MESSAGE
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were 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 better cups and are 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... enjoy the coffee instead.
Labels: random tots, Work
posted by Francesca Cecilia at 8:12 AM, | 
Thats what i feel is happening to you which is good.
Francis