Name: Professor teaches Spoiled Students a Lesson
Uploaded: 2026-01-25T17:32:01.000Z
Duration: 3 min 6 s
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One day, a group of friends very successful in their careers got together to visit their old university professor.

Past simple

After a while, the conversation turned into complaints, all about stress and work and life.

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The professor, noticing the grumbles, asked if his guest would like a cup of coffee.

They agreed and the Professor Spencer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups, porcelain, glass, crystal and some plain looking, some expensive and some exquisite.

He told them to help yourself to the coffee.

When all of 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 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's 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 and then began fighting each other over the cups.

The jobs, money, 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.

And by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything.

So live simply, love generously, speak kindly and care deeply.