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.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been taken up, 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 problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is 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 you began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; 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. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
-From an Unknown Author-
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow.
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.
Why you gave us hope when you plan to take it all away later?
Sometimes I don't even know whether you exist or not. Like now, I don't know, really. I can't feel you anywhere and I don't hear anything from you at all. You promised you will never forsake us, but look at what's happening to our lives, where are you? Why you let all this happened to us?
久しぶりね～ I haven't been here 4 way too long... not much things 2 write abt anyway... my life is not mundane, but stuffs aren't so special or worth- writing... Most of the time it's only abt me traveling and being torn btw guilts and temptations... And my procrastination ability and slacking skill are undefeatable, as ever...
God, my dad's getting paranoid. Up until now we can't forget about my uncle's tragic death. And then yesterday, another news came about one of my dad's childhood friend being passed away, perhaps have caused a huge damage to my dad's brain. He kept talking rubbish now and then, about how he'd want to be buried or something like i don't need to keep his picture because he doesn't think my children in the future would ever know who their grandad is. I mean, what the heck is that? I know my uncle and his friend passed away while they are still in their 50s, and my dad's at around the same age. But then what's the big deal? People are dying everywhere. It's just the older you get, the more people kicking the bucket you'll be able to see. Why my dad couldn't just stop making a big fuss out of it? God, i'm so tired of this... my uncle had passed away for two years and and my has been acting way for the whole time... what can i do now to earase that weird thinking of his ????
Hmm... Haven't been blogging 4 quite some time.. well basically coz i'm kinda busy wiz schoolworks (supposedly) and recently the game called plans vs. zombies has been driving me crazy. Yeah it's juz so addictive and there were times when i found myself being late for classes because of it =.=
Woot~ I've finished binding another book... 3rd one this week ^^so far my skill can be considered somewhat improving... at least there's no paper wasted this time :)
arg.. cannot stand myself =.= i woke up this morning juz to find a pair of slippers sitting happily on the end table. Yes, the one next to my bed.. the alarm clock was there too, landing upside down. wondering how on earth the slippers can end up there, obviously not by themselves.. Well, i guess it's not that unusual for someone like me, since i can normally find myself sleeping on a packet of instant noodles, or pieces of clothes, or worse, my textbooks.
This morning i had to shove away all the clutters on the desk so that i can locate my mouse. The keyboard was half- hidden, too. And it resulted in an bigger mess on the floor.
I guess it's why my mind seems to be of a big mess recently. Well, living condition is indeed having a great impact on human's emotions after all. Yup, the fact that i'm under some kind of an emo season recently is an undeniably good example for this.. Man.. i desperately want to clean my room but really dunno where to start =.=
I know that I’m not alone, and never be. Knowing that I’m always filled with love and definitely not lacking of any material things. Then why there are times when there’s an emptiness that doesn’t stop creeping all over me? I wonder where it has gone, the normal joyful and sunny side off me. Or is it because of the weather that I’ve turned out totally gloomy? I’m not sure whether it’s because weather can effect a person’s emotion, or perhaps I’m turned somewhat sensitive out off sudden? But want thing I know for sure is that my mood swings badly during heaty days, heh.
And why am I so busy out of sudden? Recently there's a restless feeling that overwhelms me and I'm stuck =.= or am really I become that emo???
