More inuendo

After my mother saying that the reason I was going to have a reception here (as opposed to the armpit I grew up in and everyone I know has left and everyone else seeks to escape) was because we were showing off "See how well we've done" she sent me this.

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got
together to visit their old university professor. The 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, and some exquisite - telling them to help themselves
to the coffee.

After 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.

“Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In
most cases, it’s 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
began eyeing each other's cups.

“Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and 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 God
has provided us."

God brews the coffee, not the cups . . . enjoy your coffee.

I just can't agree with this analogy. “The cup” is an integral part of “coffee” It is not just a form of conveyance.
First of all if you remove "the jobs, money and position in society" what is left for "Life" to encompass? Sure your loved ones, sunsets, and existence. But if you have a job you hate, if you are destitute, if you are part of the unheard masses it changes the quality of life and no beautiful moment can make it all go away.
Haven’t you found the quality of coffee in a tin, styrofoam or even silver cup is tainted?
An inadequate cup can lessen the quality of what's inside.


Perhaps I am naive and have been tainted by our capitalist society. But still…
What a bitch move on her part.