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Lately I have been drinking lots of coffees and pondering on the fortunes and misfortunes of life on earth ;-)

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

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and
returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups made off:

Cups were of porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, paper etc. Some were
ordinary looking, some expensive, some exquisite.

He told them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor
said:

"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,
leaving behind the plain and cheap looking 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 worse, you 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."

So folks, don't let the cups drive you - enjoy the coffee instead. (courtesy of Bawa)

Also consider reading some experimental poetry at the site that Diana Collins built Famous Poets

Diana writes: We have developed this site about poetry and famous poets, we have put this project together with our friends.

We created our site for educational purposes. Our site is nonprofit.

We also plan to open a literary forum and implement blog engine to help contemporary poets to post their poems and works.

We are all enthusiasts, and we consider poetry to be one of the most wonderful and remarkable branches of art.

Our project is very young and we continue to develop it.

Our mission is to introduce to many people the poetry and poems of famous poets.

If you are a poet, we will be happy to add you to our database as a contemporary poet. What do you think about it?

We think that in our modern and hitech developed world many people forget about poetry and its importance in our culture.

And so we would like you to support us and we will be happy if you link your site to our site, so that your visitors and readers as well as ours could find more information about poetry and their favorite poets. Also it will draw a lot of readers, both those who already enjoy poetry and those who will use it to discover these writers for the first time.