QUALITY OF LIFE

Quality of Life and true happiness…Do we know what to ask for - do we know when we have it? Quality of Life can be found in the simplest of jobs, the most humble of homes. it is about happiness, satisfaction, a sense of inner peace, and perhaps a job well done. I am taking more time lately to check these values. I find that my “hurry-up” and “do-more” lifestyle has been unpleasing for awhile! I even think I am being held hostage by my job, my business - a thing that I started with all excitement and potential. So, every day we get to open our eyes to the world we created and the world we will create that day….here is a great story that illustrates the point…enjoy your work, your family, your lover, your friends!

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a
reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired.
During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in
their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went
into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an
assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some
expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot
chocolate. When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor
said: ‘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’re 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 all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, 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 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 change the
quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we
fail to enjoy the hot chocolate.

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the
best of everything that they have.
Live simply.
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly…

And enjoy your hot chocolate