The Coffee is Brewing

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon 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, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

All the students 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. Be assured that the cup itself, adds no quality to the coffee in most cases, just more expensive 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 then began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does 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."

God brews the coffee, not the cups... enjoy your coffee. Do not to get caught up in the trivial material side of life. Enjoying life’s abundances is a blessing, but don’t confuse it with the bigger picture.

Words...

... don't come easy to me - ha, ha, ha!

Thanks to Wordle!

Things to Say When Stressed Out

I like the last one!

Loss for words when the going gets tough? This ought to be your guide the next time:

• "Okay, okay! I take it back. Unfuck you!!!"
• "You say I’m a bitch like it’s a bad thing?!"
• "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?"
• "Well, this day was a total waste of make-up."
• "Well, aren’t we a bloody ray of sunshine?"
• "Don’t bother me, I’m living happily ever after."
• "Do I look like a fucking people person!"
• "This isn’t an office. It’s HELL with fluorescent lighting!"
• "I started out with nothing… still have most of it left."
• "I pretend to work, they pretend to pay me."
• "YOU!! … Off my planet!!!"
• "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose."
• "Practice random acts of intelligence and senseless acts of self-control."
• "Errors have been made. Others will be blamed."
• "And your cry-baby, whiny-assed opinion would be…?"
• "I’m not crazy. I’ve been in a very bad mood for 30 years."
• "Sarcasm is just one more service I offer."
• "Whatever kind of look you were going for, you missed."
• "Do they ever shut up on your planet?"
• "I’m not your type. I’m not inflatable"
• "Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t gone to sleep yet."
• "Back off!! You’re standing in my aura."
• "Don’t worry. I forgot your name too."
• "I just want revenge. Is that so wrong?"
• "I work 45 hours a week to be this poor."
• "Nice perfume. Must you marinate in it?"
• "Not all men are annoying. Some are dead."
• "Wait… I’m trying to imagine you with a personality…"
• "Chaos, panic, and disorder… my work here is done."
• "Ambivalent? Well, yes and no."
• "You look like shit. Is that the style now?"
• "Earth is full. Go home."
• "Aw, did I step on your poor little bitty ego?"
• "I’m not tense, just terribly, terribly alert."
• "A hard-on doesn’t count as personal growth."
• "You are depriving some village of an idiot."
• "If assholes could fly, this place would be an airport."
  

Those where the days… Wink, wink!