Struggles
of our Life
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?”
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.
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