Safety Tidbits: 8-12

Cup or Coffee

The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect.

A group of graduates, 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 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, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the simple 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. Be assured that the cup itself 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 consciously went for the best cups… Then you began eyeing each other’s cups.”

He continued, “Now, my friends, consider this:
-Life is the coffee! 

-The jobs, money and position in 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 the Life we live.
-Sometimes, by concentrating on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us. So Enjoy your coffee and worry less about the cups!”

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

Live simply.
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.

You are the miracle, my friend; Your life either shines a light or casts a shadow! Shine a light & Enjoy the Coffee!!!

 Think Positive

Once our minds are ‘tattooed’ with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
— John Maxwell

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Thanks for the share, WK!