A Nice Story,from a friend.

A group of people highly established in their careers,got together to visit their old school teacher. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stressin work and life. Offering her guests coffee, theschool teacher went to the kitchen and returned with alarge pot of coffee and an assortment of cups,porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain, someexpensive, some exquisite, telling them to help themselves to the coffee. When everyone had a cup ofcoffee in hand, the school teacher said: "If younoticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups weretaken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best foryourselves, that is the source of your problems andstress. Be assured that the cup itself adds noquality to the coffee. In most cases, it is just moreexpensive 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 thenyou began eyeing each other's cups. Now considerthis: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money andposition in society are the cups. They are just toolsto hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we havedoes not define nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup,we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us." Godbrews the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee! (Then the part I like best)... The happiest people don't HAVE the best of everything. They justMAKE the best of everything they have. Live simply, love generously, care deeply and have awonderful time