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 hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor 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 best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups.
Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. they are just tools to hold and contain life, but the quality of life doesn’t change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.”
So, don’t let the cups drive you… enjoy the coffee instead.
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Hot coffee di sore yg mendung ini, sungguh nikmat.. [that's not the point :p]
Betul Pak, yg penting dinikmati dan disyukuri. Maknyuss!
hmm… kalo saya pilih cangkir yang paling membuat nyaman (jadi teringat cangkir yang saya tinggalkan di bandung)
Kesibukan dalam pekerjaan yang menyita waktu kadang membuat kita lupa untuk menikmati hidup yang diberikan oleh Sang Pencipta,malah terkadang bertanya-tanya “sebenarnya apa tujuan saya hidup?…”
Thank’s for the story sir ! very inspirational….
nice piece of “renungan” pak. thank you for sharing it with us. BTW, h-r-U pak, long time not see in the corridor of labtek XI
What an inspiring story, Pak Grandis.
The coffe itself or the cup?
Some of us prefer the cup to coffee.
Sangat menarik pak…terutama untuk menyikapi situasi akhir-akhir ini….
Ah … bapak, bisa aja kalau urusan kopi …
Ah kopi…. enaknya ngopi sambil ngeblog
tentu tidak dengan rokok 
Bener yg dibilang pak HG, pak Taufik sibuk kampanye aja sudah jarang ketemu-an bagaimana nanti kalau pak eh maksud saya “Aa Opik” udah jadi nganu “???”, (bercanda Aa).. salam kenal & sukses ya Aa Opik!!!,
the important think is not a cup of coffee…. but how make that coffee is more delicious to drink with the people and condition around us.
Renungan yang manis, semanis kopi nasgitel di warkop pinggir jalan.
salam, Pak.