It is most encouraging when blog
readers submit to me stories,
experiences and philosophies...that well blend with and enhance the messages I
present through Merle's Kaleidoscope of
Life. “Coffee Service” (previous posted
article) and this one truly impressed me and bear significant importance to how
we, today, may live our lives.
I extend gracious thanks to an American reader
for having the insight to send me today’s
article.
Life is Like
Coffee
A video shows the University
entrance...coffee pot...and assortment of beautiful cups and saucers from
ornate to plain...captions at each picture “paint the lesson” to us
all...illustrated with various coffee cups as the professor's message is
revealed.
Think about it!
Maybe you don't
even like coffee...but this is thought provoking.
A group of alumni, highly
established in their careers, get together to visit their old college
professor.
Conversation soon turned to
complaints...about stress and work in life.
Offering his guests coffee,
the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large silver pot of
coffee and an assortment of cups:
porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal...some plain looking...some
expensive...some exquisite.
He told his guests to help
themselves to the coffee. After everyone
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's the source of your problems and stress.
Be aware that the cup adds no
quality to the coffee. In most cases ~
it's just not expensive...and in some cases, even hides what we drink...when
all you really want is the coffee ~ not the cup. But you consciously went for the best cups...and
then you began eyeing each other's cup.
They are just tools to hold and contain Life.
Sometimes, by concentrating
only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee!
Savour the Coffee...not the
Cup!
The happiest people don't have
the best of everything.
Live simply...Speak
kindly...Care deeply...Love graciously.
The happiest person is not the
one who has the most! But the one who has the least.
Life is like
Coffee!
(Author Unknown)
SOMETHING ELSE TO
THINK ABOUT
Self Lesson
Imagine that you had won the
following prize in a contest. Each
morning your bank would deposit $86,400.00 in your private account for your
use. However, this prize had rules, just
as any game has certain rules. The first
set of rules would be: "Everything that you didn't spend
during each day would be taken away from you. You may not simply transfer
money into some other account. You may only spend it."
Each morning upon awakening,
the bank opens your account with another $86,400.00 for that day.
The second set of rules would
be: The bank can end the game without
warning and at any time can say, “It's
over; the game is over!" It can close the account and you will
not receive a new one.
What would you personally
do?
You would buy anything and everything you wanted,
right? Not only for yourself, but for
all the people you love, right? You
would try to spend every cent, and use it, right?
ACTUALLY, THIS
GAME IS REALITY!
Each
of us is in possession of such a “magical” bank.
We just cant' seem to see it.
We just cant' seem to see it.
THE MAGICAL BANK
IS TIME
Each awakening
morning we receive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life...
and when we go to
sleep at night, any remaining time is NOT credited to us.
What we haven't
lived up that day is forever lost.
Yesterday is forever gone!
Each morning the account is
refilled,
but the bank can
dissolve your account at any time
WITHOUT WARNING!
Well, what will
you do with your 86,400 seconds?
Aren't they worth
so much more than the same amount in dollars?
Think about that,
and always think of this:
Enjoy every second
of your life, because time races by
so much quicker
than you think.
So, take care of
yourself and enjoy life!
Pearl of Wisdom
“The uncertainty of
the present always give way
to the enchanted
possibilities of the future.”
Crafted by Merle
Baird-Kerr...May 3, 2013
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