“Never play anything the same way twice.”

A great quote, you could almost live by it heh…

found this short story today and i thought i’d share:

Life is The Coffee

A
group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to
visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into
complaints about stress in work and in life. Offering his guests
coffee, 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 the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:

“If
you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving
behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is 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 consider this: Life is the coffee and the jobs, money
and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and
contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by
concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has
provided. So, don’t let the cups drive you … enjoy the coffee
instead.”