So coffee inside cup is more important than the cup itself.Īt the end of the day, it is vital to know what does make you happy and what does completes you. But no cup in the world, no matter how exquisite, can ever compensate for the horrid taste of bad coffee. Sure, a nice looking cup may help make the experience of drinking the coffee interesting. They just make the best out of everything. Savor the coffee and not the cups ! The happiest people in this world don’t have the best of everything. We keep our focus on outside beauty and appearance, whereas the real quality and value lies inside. Most of the people concentrate only on the cup and fail to enjoy the coffee.
Moral of Motivational Story – Life is like a cup of coffee Please don’t let the CUPS drive you !! Enjoy the COFFEE …!!!” The type of cup we have does not define or change the quality of life we live.
are the cups !!! They are just tools to hold and contain life. What you really wanted was COFFEE, not the CUP ! But you consciously went for the best cups… and then you began eyeing each other’s cups.”Īlways remember one thing, If life is coffee and jobs, money, status or position in society & love etc. In most cases, it is just more expensive and in some cases even it hides what we drink. Professor continued further and explained after seeing their curious face, “Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. Motivational and inspirational stories about life – Empty your Cup (Story # 5)Īll the friends got confused and were looking towards professor they could not understand what’s the connection with having a coffee in chosen cup with the STRESS and TENSION of life. While it is, of course normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that can also be the source of much of your dissatisfaction, problems and stress and tension in life.” Read another motivational story The professor continued, “ Every one of you wanted the best CUPS. It was surprising moment, as nobody noticed that there were some extra cups of coffee and while having their cup, nobody took the ordinary cups and all of them were left on the serving tray. When all of them had a cup in hand, The professor said, “If you noticed, all the nice looking & expensive cups are taken up, leaving behind the ordinary, plain and cheap ones !!!” The students thought that professor may not have the same kind of cups and due to large number of guests his wife has served the coffee in different cups. One thing was to be noticed that she brought coffee in different kinds of cups !!! (crystal cups, glass cups, ceramic cups, shining ones, some plain looking, some ordinary, some exquisite and some expensive ones …). After 10-15 minutes, his beautiful wife came with a pleasant smile. The professor offered them coffee and went to kitchen to ask his wife to prepare coffee for all his students. There was quality conversation going on, but somehow the conversation soon diverted to complaints about work, relationships, ‘ stress‘ & ‘tension’ in life. Everyone had his/her own timing of life in achieving the milestones. All of them had got married and having wonderful family. Few became a good leaders having senior positions in corporate world whereas few were doing good in the business world. They shared with each other, how did they move ahead in life. Everyone was trying to know whereabouts and the developments in their friends life after leaving college.
It was quite a happy moment for not only professor but even for the all friends (students of professor) also as some of them were meeting after a long time. All planning was done and on predefined date they visited their most popular and old university professor’s house. They finalized to make a surprise visit to professor. The professor was very popular among university students and had been mentor for many of them.
Inspirational and Motivational Short Story # 1 – Life is …like a cup of coffeeĪ group of best friends decided to have their alumni get together at the residence of one of their favorite university professor.