Hot Chocolate

Just something I read this morning. Thought it was a good way to start the day.

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The Wisdom in 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 problems 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 God has provided us.  God makes the hot chocolate,
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.