Enjoy your Hot Chocolate

Before I get into today’s article, I like to apologize for not posting last week. I was in Pennsylvania for a client. My hope to be able to write in the evenings was shattered due to the 3 hour time shift combined with the advent of daylight savings time. Each night I fell into bed and was happy to drag my bones out the next morning, which was the equivalent of 4 AM in the morning on my body clock. Next time I will be better prepared.How is this for an intro to an article about Hot Chocolate…..

I was recently approached by Dominic Siano. He had found me and our company at the My Space site we are running. Dominic said that he discovered a number of similarities in our goals and what we do to achieve them. We began talking and might form a partnership between our companies. I took his invitation to review his sites and writings and found an article I thought you would also enjoy. Here is what Dominic wrote:

A friend sent this to me and it’s been circulating around the Internet lately. A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.
When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said: ‘Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, 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. The cup that you’re drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began eyeing each other’s cups.
  Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate provided for us. God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups.

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.I know that not everybody would pay as much attention to the cup. Still there is a valuable lesson here. Let’s try to create the best possible hot chocolate anybody can make and then allow others to participate in the enjoyment.