Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life
was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was
tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem
was solved, another one soon followed. Her father, a chef, took her to the
kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire.
Once the three pots
began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground
coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a
word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering
what he was doing. After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the
potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and
placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup.
Turning to her, he
asked. “Daughter, what do you see?” “Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she hastily
replied.
“Look closer”, he
said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft.
He then asked her to
take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the
hard-boiled egg.
Finally, he asked
her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does
this mean?” she asked.
He then explained
that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same
adversity-the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato
went in strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and
weak. The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid
interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg
became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were
exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which one are you?”
he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond?
Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
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Summary:
When struggles come in your life, you can either:
1.
Be weaker
2.
Have hardened heart, or
3.
Let the problems make you go out from your comfort zone, but
then you create something much more greater. You take problems as advantages
cause you believe there will be joy after sorrow.
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Moral: In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is how you choose to react to it and what you make out of it. Life is all about leaning, adopting and converting all the struggles that we experience into something positive.
Quote: "Let your positive mind turns problems into something beautiful. Otherwise, don't let problems change your positive mind and mess up with your life." #EAYwords
- Amelita Yonathan -
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