Below is a nice story that my fren sent me and it's rather true to a certain extent...
But read on and see my views to how this whole thing shld be...

Enjoy the Coffee
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 of Porcelain, Plastic, Glass, Crystal, some 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.

At times, it's the whole package.. Drinkg coffee can be seen as an experience rather than just the commodity itself... other than the aroma and taste of the coffee, the container can also put you in a good mood and hence, enhance the experience..Similarly life can be interpreted in the same way...Life should be the experience of drinking coffee & while the coffee itself is the essence, there's no reason why we cannot enjoy the "by-products" of having a nice cup... (of coz... subject to a certain amount of reasonableness... since some ppl might enjoy the process of obtaining the cup while others might be obsessed with it