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  • 29-09-2010 11:24pm
    #1
    Tilt Gone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭


    A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer.

    Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

    Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

    When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer 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. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."

    Life is coffee, then the material possesions are the cups. They are just tools to hold, contain and capture life's moments.

    "Sometimes, by concentrating too much on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

    So folks, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead. ; ))
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Comments

  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    But coffee tastes better from a mug than a styrofoam cup.


  • #3
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    You cant sell plastic cups on eBay...


    Well you can, but not for much


  • #4
    SadieSue
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭SadieSue


    You should put that on a card.


  • #5
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    My bowel doctor says I can't have coffee anymore.

    I do however have to wear a cup when I play sports.

    How does this anecdote apply to me?


  • #6
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,109 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I would have asked him where the tea is. Coffee is disgusting.


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  • #7
    knird evol
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol


    Did they get any biscuits?

    I like chocolate Polo biscuits.


  • #8
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    I dont get it.

    Wait. how come biscuits is so hard to spell?

    :confused:


  • #9
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    This is the kind of b*llox that "life coaches" come out with.

    And life coaches are f*cking twats.


  • #10
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Do those e-mails still go around?


  • #11
    SadieSue
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭SadieSue


    If coffee (or any other hot beverage) is life and the mug is material possessions.. what are the hobnobs ?


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  • #12
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm students


  • #13
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    SadieSue wrote: »
    If coffee (or any other hot beverage) is life and the mug is material possessions.. what are the hobnobs ?

    Biscuits.


  • #14
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    I like it tbh. :)


  • #15
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    seamus wrote: »
    But coffee tastes better from a mug than a styrofoam cup.

    f**kin A


    Dickhead academics


  • #16
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    SadieSue wrote: »
    If coffee (or any other hot beverage) is life and the mug is material possessions.. what are the hobnobs ?

    Religion? Packed with carbs and never enough chocolate.


  • #17
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    Religion? Packed with carbs and never enough chocolate.

    You should try the chocolate ones if you like chocolate.


  • #18
    AAAAAAAHHH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭AAAAAAAHHH


    Novella wrote: »
    I like it tbh. :)

    Are you a woman? Because this is the kind of ****e that women always like.


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