“Hot chocolate” aka “Life”!!!

Well this blog is something for which i really need to have my disclamiers spot on:
Disclaimer: The intellegience behind this post is not mine, what a wonderful thought this post carries; i had an oppurtunity to borrow this thought from one of my acquantinance I hope this post creates a meaninful entity among all my other posts which are totally my sole property. Its time for a cup of coffee folks , reach out for your cups.

It was nice Saturday afternoon we, a group of friends from college, well established in their careers, were discussing about their lives at a class reunion seating on a green grass cushion of Cubbon Park.  Amit says “Buddy things are bad, too much of work at office…can not give enough time to my family”. Rahaul says “ha ha ha….see that is why I am still so happy no family no tension”. Amit says “huh!!! What crap. I know you spend whole night in office and then next day you call me whether there is any opening in my company.” We started laughing. Amit continues “Buddy it is not the family problem, it is the work, the rat race and running behind money attitude”. Chitra says “Yes I do agree that point. But what shall I do. Now market is bad, it is difficult to get a job so need to listen to my boss. Also my company pay is good how I can leave that”. Later the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work, lives and relationships. Danny finally breaks the thread and says “yeah yeah…we all are in a ‘chakra buhu’ need to come out of…lets meet Vijay Sir one day and discuss about that”. So we decided to go visit our old university professor, who was always an inspiration to them.

It was nice house inside IISC campus very nice and peaceful place. Offering us hot chocolate, our professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups.  Some cups were porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite. He invited each to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor shared his thoughts.

 “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 are 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 each of you really wanted was hot chocolate.  You did not want the cup . . . but you consciously went for the best cups. And soon, you began to eye one another’s cups.”

I said in my mind “Common proff, I mean that is what we want. We struggled so much to get a nice comfortable life”.

There was streak silence and our beloved professor continues “Now friends, please 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 does it change, the quality of life you are living. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us. Always remember this . . . . . . . God brews the hot chocolate, He does not choose the cup.”

He looked at me with a wink in his eye, “ya I know you do not believe in God….so for you it is the destiny”.

He continues, “The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have!!”

Danny added “Steve Jobs says …Stay Hugry, Stay Foolish”.

Proff says “yes very true, that is for knowledge not for success”.

He continues, “Live simply ...Care deeply...Speak kindly...Love generously...and if you can love generously something the success will come and will knock you door and will bring happiness along. So do not chase the success be the best and try to excel”

We all are dumb stuck. He broke the silence and said loudly “Enjoy your hot chocolate gentlemen!!! Remember, the richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least. By the way did you guys watched ‘3 idiots’…..’”