Whats with the run?
Everyone is running & proclaiming 'I am the CFO,CEO,COO,the downhill tumble & roll champ, king of toad fingers, caption of high altitude tree branch Vista club, second place finisher in the ‘ Round the yard backward dash, Premier Burper State Division, Sodbuster & worm scout First Order & General of Mud & Mayhem Society, CFO,CEO,COO……. All sound high funda,hehe. Ok,found a nice story,read.
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 for
themselves.
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.
we won't have time to enjoy/taste the water in it."
-Mother Teresa
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 for
themselves.
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."
we won't have time to enjoy/taste the water in it."
-Mother Teresa
posted by Seema at Saturday, August 13, 2005
4 Comments:
It is a very nice comparison - but can it be practical - I mean can it be commonly acceptable! We need fundas that are more practical and acceptable!
No mo,not really. But such stories can relieve stress & save you from a heart attact or atleast bring momentary peace.
She was mortal too.Her deeds are immortal.All of donot have the strength that she had,but we could try.She too could not have done it alone.The world has 2 type of people.The initiators & the facilitators.If not the initiator,we could all be the facilitators.Think about it.
Hey, who is the Oct 23rd anonymous?
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