Waking up slowly.

Last semester, waking up was an impossible chore every day, but recently, I have found myself looking forward to the day ahead. There is no longer the lingering question of "How will I fail today?" but rather the imposing thought, "What must I do to succeed?" I've always been really bad about finding balance in my life. It swings haphazardly from the "Friends and family" category to the "School and My Future" category, leaving heaps of collateral damage in the form of angry ex-girlfriends, lost friends, lingering regrets, and red marks everywhere. I can't make "well, I have a balanced life" excuses anymore to justify my failures in either aspect of my life. Instead of trying to stack on one end, hoping for God's hand to reach down and balance my machine, I need to simply strap some C4 to the whole thing and start anew. Sometimes priorities can't be tacked on or rearranged; they must be rebuilt from the ground up. I am envious of those who know exactly what their path in life needs to be, as I am almost 20 and still trying to decide the type of person I want to wake up as each morning.

-Court

On Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers got together to visit old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guest coffee, professor went to the kitchen and brought a large pot of coffee and assortment of cups- porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal. Some plain looking, some expensive and some exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the student had a cup of coffee in hand professor said-
If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. It is normal for you to want only the best for yourself But that is the source of your problem and stress.

What all of you wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously want for the best cup and were eyeing each other’s cup.

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

So don’t let the cups drive you….

Enjoy the coffee instead.

(note: Taken from http://www.gowrikumar.com/blog/)

Remember, we are not our job, we are not our clothes, we are not the bed we wake up in, the couch we sit on, or the T.V. we watch. Be thankful for the people that make your coffee taste so delicious.