• Story Corner: Cup or Coffee !!

    // Gradly // blog, Stories 3 Responses

    The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect.”

    A group of graduates, 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, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the simple 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… 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 on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us. Enjoy your coffee!.”

    The happiest people don’t have the best of everything.
    They just make the best of everything.”

    1. Live simply.
    2. Love generously.
    3. Care deeply.
    4. Speak kindly.
    5. Leave the rest to God.

    The moral of this story:

    • Your life either shines a light OR casts a shadow!
      Shine a light & Enjoy the Coffee!!!

  • Story Corner: Marvelous Answer

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    A mechanic was removing the cylinder heads from the motor of a car when he spotted the famous heart surgeon in his shop, who was standing off to the side, waiting for the service manager to come to take a look at his car.

    The mechanic shouted across the garage, “Hello Doctor!! Please come over here for a minute.”

    The famous surgeon, a bit surprised, walked over to the mechanic.

    The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and asked argumentatively, “So doctor, look at this. I also open hearts, take valves out, grind ’em, put in new parts, and when I finish this will work as a new one. So how come you get the big money, when you and me is doing basically the same work?”

    The doctor leaned over and whispered to the mechanic:

    “Try to do it when the engine is running.”

  • Story Corner: A disappointed Salesman

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    A disappointed salesman of Coca Cola returns from his Middle East assignment.

    A friend asked, “Why weren’t you successful with the Arabs?”

    The salesman explained, “When I got posted in the Middle East, I was very confident that I will makes a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn’t know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through 3 posters…

    First poster, a man crawling through the hot desert sand… Totally exhausted and panting. Second poster, the man is drinking our Cola and Third, our man is now totally refreshed. Then these posters were pasted all over the place”

    “That should have worked,” said the friend.

    The salesman replied, “Well, not only did I not speak Arabic, I also didn’t realise that Arabs Read from Right to Left…”

  • Story Corner: Man ًًWith No Arms

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    A man lost one of his arms in an accident. He became very depressed because he had loved to play guitar and a lot of things that took two arms.

    One day he could not stand it anymore. He decided to commit suicide. He got on an elevator and went to the top of a tall building to jump off.

    He was standing on the ledge looking down and saw this man on the sidewalk below skipping along whistling and kicking up his heels. He looked closer and noticed this man didn’t have any arms at all.

    He started thinking, what am I doing up here feeling sorry for myself, I still have one good arm to do things with. There goes a man with no arms skipping down the sidewalk happy and going on with his life.

    He hurried down and caught the man with no arms. He told him how glad he was to see him because he had lost one of his arms and felt ugly, useless and was going to kill himself. He thanked him again for saving his life and he now knew he could make it with one arm if that guy could do it with no arms.

    The man with no arms began dancing and whistling and kicking up his heels again. He asked “Why are you so happy anyway?”

    He said “I’m NOT happy; my butt itches.”