Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite bone china - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the alumni had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said,

 "Notice that 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.

here's another way to look at this... 

Let's say you are the "cup"...  and someone is going to drink of what you yourself have to give.

No matter how "we" look on the outside....( if we ourselves are the "cup" offering some kind of life to others)....  it's what we offer that matters  the most.  

 We can offer our best...  in even a cup (body) that is not so nice and perfect....  

Our frail, getting-older bodies aren't the best anymore... but the spirit of us inside is still valuable and of good worth to someone else.   

So let yourself feel good about "You" and what you offer to others who are in your little world.  

You...you soul, your mind, your spirit, your caring heart, your smile, your kind voice...  could be the best 'coffee' someone drinks in their whole life.