[OT] Coffee and life

I was posted this the other day and thought I'd share it:

A group of alumni, 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 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 but 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, 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... and then began 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 the 
type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. 
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee life 
has provided us."

Life brews the coffee, not the cups..........enjoy your coffee

Regards

Dominic Burford BSc Hons MBCS CITP
Third Party Developer Program Senior Software Engineer 

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is to make it so simple there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way 
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- Tony 
Hoare, Turing Award Lecture 1980



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