Are we a Carrot, an Egg or Coffee Bean in Facing Life's Adversities?

There are times when we feel pressured...when difficulties just seem to find us as the right candidate.... but the question now is...how are we coping with them?

Here is a great story...and from today we should learn from this story OK :)

A young woman went to her mother and told her how hard things were in her life. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil.

In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans.

She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.

In about thirty minutes she turned off the burners.

She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.

Turning to her daughter, she asked, “Tell me, what you see?”

“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied. Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots.

She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it.

After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its richness.

The daughter then asked, “What does it mean, mother?”

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity … boiling water.

Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.

The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.

The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

“Which are you?” she asked her daughter.

“When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond?

Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?”

How about you? Does the boiling water of pain change you?

Have you gone into hardship fragile like an egg, but come out hardened and bitter and have not able to feel or have empathy or show no kindness ?

Or strong like a carrot, only to be softened and defeated...and totally demotivated and not willing to try new things or move ahead ?

Or, like the coffee beans, have you allowed the situation to be an opportunity for growth and change and take control of the adversity and not let the adversity take control of you ?

Let us from today emulate the coffee beans...here's to a great week ahead :)

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