The happiest people don’t have the best of everything
… they just make the best of everything.
Many of you may have seen the video circulating with the message we’ve posted today, but as it is very appropriate to the intent of The 51% Project, we wanted to bring it to our blog this week. You can find the written text below, but be sure to view the video on our Facebook page – and be sure to pass it on!
Life is Like a Cup of Coffee
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 the coffee.When all the students 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 is the source of your problems and stress.Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, 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 coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Author Unknown
The 51% Project is about finding joy and happiness in our lives, and passing on those gifts to the people we love and the people we meet. The message of the “Cup of Coffee” story is just the kind of thing we enjoy sharing. Won’t you join us this week as we focus on the wonderful parts of our lives, acknowledging whatever positive outcomes have come from even our most challenging situations. Let’s ask ourselves: Do I find joy in the simple things - the coffee, or is joy elusive because of the trappings - the cups - that contain my life? Let’s make a list of what makes us truly joyful and seek them out! Spring is here – the birds and buds are back – let’s stop and smell the coffee!! If you find, like we have, that they are the small things, we encourage you to look at them more closely and make the best of the simple joys in life.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
We wish you a very happy week,
Susan and Dorothy
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