060330 咖啡才重要
寫了延續巴黎生活之後，台灣好朋友寄了一封信給我，這是一群關於名校畢業生同學會的故事。故事告訴我們，其實人生的目的無非就是為了追求好的生活，而好的生活其實不難尋得。人們汲汲追求包裝生活的職業與權力等附加條件其實是多餘的。
Tags: coffee, life, quoteA Cup of Coffee
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old University of Notre Dame lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups -porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer 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 better cups and are 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.”
“Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.”
April 1st, 2006 at 1:19 am
很喜欢这个观点，最近活动还真不少，就连传说中的摄影展好像开始有点动静了，展出的时候来玩啊，哈哈