A simple, meaningful analogy for reflection....
A group of working adults got together to visit their University
lecturer.
The lecturer was happy to see them.
Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and
life.
The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an
assortment of cups - some porcelain, some in plastic, some in
glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and
exquisite. The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get
drinks for themselves.
When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer
spoke:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken
up,leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that
is the source of your problems and stress.
What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously
went for the better cups.
"Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and
positioning society are the cups. They are just tools to
hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change.
"If we only concentrate on the cup, we won't have time to
enjoy/taste the water in it."
