HOT CHOCOLATE
A friend of mine sent me the below email the other day which I thought was worth a read:- makes a lot of sense to me.
A group of graduates, well established in their careers, was talking ata reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, nowretired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stressin their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, theprofessor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hotchocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, someplain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to helpthemselves to the hot chocolate.When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said:'Notice that all the nice looking; expensive cups were taken, leavingbehind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want onlythe best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hotchocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some caseseven hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hotchocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups...Andthen you began eyeing each other's cups. Consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society arethe cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you havedoes not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, byconcentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate. Thehappiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make thebest of everything that they have.
Live simply.
Love generously.Care deeply.Speak kindly.And enjoy your hot chocolate ~There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best ofus, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.
3 comments:
Enjoying your blog and messages immensely. Don't you love the colours of Broome?
It's nearly a year since our chat and coffee in the Dingo Cafe. Where has the time gone?
Take Care
Peter
Hi Pete, time flies doesnt it. It seems like yesterday we were sitting drinking coffee warding off the thousands of flies in the cafe at William Creek. I love the colours of the Kimberley. This area gets into your blood.
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