Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
When 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. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead --

I

Precariously juxtaposed

Man's endless predicament

Desiring the impossible

Shunning the inevitable

Down right idiocy

Helplessly giving in to it .

Before me I beheld

A light in my horizon

Strangely captivating

Intrigued I drew near

Captured by golden brightness

Brief moments flickered

Creating an aura

A steadfastness illogical

Duping me into suspension .

II

Incredibly lay the truth

Mere passing clouds

Meant just to be swept away

Yet deliberately I turn off

Laying discretion and caution aside

Willingly embracing ignorance

As erratic superfluous emotions

Tumble like fresh borne floods

Ruthlessly breaking shores

Stilling soul and senses

Into somber stupefaction.

III

Along life's pathway

My soul searches

Frantically I looked about

Surprisingly yet sadly

Many a soul I see

Agonizingly searching

Is there anybody ?

Empathetic souls none

Fill vacuums foreboding

Be it kith or kin ?

All at ear shot

Some at hand's length

No time nor ears to lend.

Wallowing in swamped up feeling

Searching to share

Only grotesque masks strut

On the stage of Life

Moving in many worlds

Cold and callous of their making .

IV

Finding my respite

I let slip in to shades

Of make believe secured ness

An overpowering glee

Ecstasy mingled in agony

I am caught prevailing

Bounded in timelessness

Short lived though it be

Like the last embers of fire place

Or the dying flame of a finished candle

Groping for a hold

I find my feet at last

As I fall back with a thud

As wisdom re -turns to return

Reality strikes like a brain storm

As each to our own orbit

We got to return

To the rightful place

Where we belong !!!

Read the paragraph below...

and try to understand the meaning.

Then look for the answer below. Test yourself first.


'Two individuals proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic
protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement
of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact
size of which was unspecified.

'One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe
damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure;
subsequently, the second member of the team performed
self-rotational translation, orientated in the same direction taken by the
first team member.'



ANY GUESSES WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT???



Scroll down to understand :.......in simple English what does this translate to?


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Socrates built a house and invited his friends home .Each of his friends had something to say but everything negative one said the hall was too small the other said the entrance was facing wrong direction one other said the height of the ceiling was too small and hence the house looked drab they unanimously kept saying the rooms were too small and hearing this Socrates couldn't help giving a punch statement ''the rooms are no doubt small but if it has place to fill many good large hearted friends then that's more than enough '' the friends couldn't but shut their mouths and refrained from commenting there on..

MIND READING HELMETS

To save life helmets are used but to read thought process helmets are being designed in England. English scientists have invented a helmet which can read mind's thoughts .This is going to be helpful in video games for instance in playing WWF if the opponent is to be given a series of blows or punches just the thought gets transmitted to the computer and the action is done .So there will be no need of using fingers or handling buttons . Next year it is produced and set for sale .As a result scientists believe that thought processes alone could be used to operate computers in the future .

6. The tears happen:

Endure, grieve, and move on.
The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourself.
LIVE while you are alive.

7 Surround yourself with what you love:

Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health:

If it is good, preserve it.
If it is unstable, improve it.
If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips.
Take a trip to the mall, even to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity

And if you don't send this to at least four people - who cares?
But do share this with someone.

Thank you.

Have a great day.

G.S. contd

Bonnie Blair

Winning doesn't mean being first, winning means you re doing better than you've done before

Thomas Edison

I will not say I failed 1000 times I will say I discovered that there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

Mother Theresa

If you start judging people you will be having no time to love them

Einstein

If someone feels that they had never made any mistake in life then it means they have never tried any thing new in life

Abraham Lincoln

Believing everybody is dangerous

believing nobody is very dangerous.

Leo Tolstoy

Every one thinks of changing the world no one thinks of changing himself

Swami vivekananda

In a day when you don't come across any problems- you can be sure you are traveling in a wrong path .

Three sentences for success

William Shakespeare :

1.Know more than the other

2. work more than the other

3.Expect less than the other.

Adolf Hitler :

If you win you need not explain

But if you lose you should not be there to explain

Alen Strike

Don't compare your self with any one in this world .If you do this you are insulting your self

More to follow...

Great Sayings On Marriage

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry.

That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

David Bissonette
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Sacha Gui try
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After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

Hemant Joshi
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By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates
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Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.

Dumas
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The great question.... Which I have not been able to answer... Is, "What does a woman want?

Sigmund Freud
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"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years."

Sam Kinison
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"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage."

James Holt McGavran
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"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't."

Patrick Murray
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The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once...

Anonymous
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You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

Henny Youngman
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My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

Rodney Dangerfield
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A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

Milton Berle
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Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.

Anonymous
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First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"

Second Guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."

Anonymous

Pushing thru the maddening crowds

Leaving behind noisy chatters

I seek some private corner

My cave to sojourn for a while

Stillness ne'er irks nor is sombre

A solace in silence that welcomes me

Unspeaking I commune

With me, my Lord ..myself

Water studs on lotus leaves

Shyly running down

Scoops of butter on crane's head

Slimly slipping away .

Joys or sorrows

Ups or downs

Highs or lows

Stifles or giggles

When precariously see-saw

On another man's scales

Self gets stifled

Ousted out of driver seat

Relegated to the back

Deflated you are prompted

To play on Second fiddle

Man awake to hearken

Hear!The voice of caution

Emotional dependence kills

Damming individual spirits

To hell with dependants

Chuck them o'er board

Learn to stand firmly

On your two big feet

To carry you through ..Life.