Fwd: Hot chocolate -- another way to look at life...OT

[Guest guest]

My uncle sent this to me and I love the message. Thought I would pass it on.

 

Cassie

" life's a garden, dig it! "

 

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Ray Mullett <sunfish2530

July 31, 2008 10:11:01 PM EDT

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FW: Hot chocolate -- another way to look at life...

sunfish2530

 

 

 

 

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Monday, July 28, 2008, 5:16 AM

 

 

> Hot Chocolate

>

> A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a

> reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now

> retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about

> stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the

> professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot

> chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some

> plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help

> themselves 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, leaving

> behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only

> the best for yourselves, that is the source of your probl ems and stress.

> The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot

> chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even

> hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not

> the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began

> eyeing each other's cups.

>

> Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position

> in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The

> cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have.

> Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot

> chocolate that has been provided us. The hot chocolate is there for the

taking, man chooses

> the cups.

>

> The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the

> best of everything that they have.

>

> Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your

> hot chocolate in 2008!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

What a insightful story and helps us keep things in the proper positive, happy

perspective.

Thanks,

Judy