A Cup of Tea

As I told you before that I got so many advantages by using twitter in the internet, not only following news update, but also getting new inspiration.

One of inspirations that I got from twitter is a lesson that hidden in a cup of tea. We sometimes consume a cup of tea without any thinking what lesson behind it, but after reading this, I start to understand that there is a lesson in our common habitual action.
Further, I believe that so many lessons that we will get from every single thing that common to do in our daily life as long as we concern about :)


A Cup Of Tea
" A group of students, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old teacher. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests tea, the teacher went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of tea and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the tea.

When all the students had a cup of tea 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 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 tea. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was tea, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began eyeing each other’s cups too.

Now consider this: Life is the tea; 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 tea Allah has provided us.’ Allah brews the tea, not the cups. Enjoy tea. "