catstevens
06-22-2006, 02:05 PM
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Hi everyone, I hope you all are fine and happy today and everyday, Amen =)
I found the following story and I'd like to share it with ya :)
you can start reading it from the red star*
By Henrylito D. Tacio Source (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2005/08/13/feat/a.cup.of.coffee..html)
Chris Brown, my co-editor of the book, In Search of Excellence: Exemplary Forest Management in Asia and the Pacific, sent me a "nice story" that "might work into one of your columns one day." Below is the story, but I have tried to modify it: A week before their college graduation, seven friends went to the office of their professor and talked with him. "Sir," one of them said, "is it possible if eight years from now we will meet in your house and have a reunion?" The professor answered affirmatively. Several years passed and the seven friends became very successful in their chosen fields. Jonathan is now heading his own business firm in Makati. Rudy is a highly respected forester working in a UN agency in Rome. Gary has a flourishing career as a consultant in Bangkok. Anselmo is a renowned physician in Cebu City. The three others - Carlos, Rodel, and James - are all engineers working in other parts of the world: Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Canada, respectively. Eight years later, all seven got together at their professor's house. Talk, talk, talk, and more talk. Soon, *conversation 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, some plain looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the seven friends 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. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups." The professor continued: "Now, if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, but the quality of life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it." J. Richard Sneed reminds: "Life is currently described in one of four ways: as a journey, as a battle, as a pilgrimage, and as a race. Select your own metaphor, but the finishing necessity is all the same. For if life is a journey, it must be completed. If life is a battle, it must be finished.If life is a pilgrimage, it must be concluded. And if it is a race, it must be won."
For comments, write me at tasyo2002@yahoo.com.
Have a nice , peaceful and faithful day
*Peace and love*
Yours Sincerely,
Cat Stevens
Hi everyone, I hope you all are fine and happy today and everyday, Amen =)
I found the following story and I'd like to share it with ya :)
you can start reading it from the red star*
By Henrylito D. Tacio Source (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2005/08/13/feat/a.cup.of.coffee..html)
Chris Brown, my co-editor of the book, In Search of Excellence: Exemplary Forest Management in Asia and the Pacific, sent me a "nice story" that "might work into one of your columns one day." Below is the story, but I have tried to modify it: A week before their college graduation, seven friends went to the office of their professor and talked with him. "Sir," one of them said, "is it possible if eight years from now we will meet in your house and have a reunion?" The professor answered affirmatively. Several years passed and the seven friends became very successful in their chosen fields. Jonathan is now heading his own business firm in Makati. Rudy is a highly respected forester working in a UN agency in Rome. Gary has a flourishing career as a consultant in Bangkok. Anselmo is a renowned physician in Cebu City. The three others - Carlos, Rodel, and James - are all engineers working in other parts of the world: Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Canada, respectively. Eight years later, all seven got together at their professor's house. Talk, talk, talk, and more talk. Soon, *conversation 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, some plain looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the seven friends 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. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups." The professor continued: "Now, if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, but the quality of life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it." J. Richard Sneed reminds: "Life is currently described in one of four ways: as a journey, as a battle, as a pilgrimage, and as a race. Select your own metaphor, but the finishing necessity is all the same. For if life is a journey, it must be completed. If life is a battle, it must be finished.If life is a pilgrimage, it must be concluded. And if it is a race, it must be won."
For comments, write me at tasyo2002@yahoo.com.
Have a nice , peaceful and faithful day
*Peace and love*
Yours Sincerely,
Cat Stevens