Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Reflection of the Carrot, Egg and Coffee ..


A child complained to her father about her life and ask why life is so hard for her. He does not know how to deal with it and almost gave up. He was tired to fight. It seems every time one problem is completed, new problems arise.
His father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and put it on fire. Soon the pots came to boil. He put carrots in the pan first, second and eggs in a pot he placed ground coffee beans last. He let it boil without saying a word. The child is silent and waited impatiently, wondering what he was doing his father. After 20 minutes she turned off the fire. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl, lift the egg and put it in another bowl, and pour the coffee in a bowl.
Then he asked his son, "What you see, son?" "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," replied the boy. Her father brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. Her father then asked him to take an egg and break it. After removing the skin, he found a boiled egg is hardened. Finally, her father asked her to sip the coffee. He smiled when tasting coffee with a rich aroma.
After that, the boy asked, "What does it mean, Dad?" He explained that each had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted differently.Boiled carrots before a strong, hard and difficult to be broken. But after boiling, carrots become soft and tender.
Egg had been fragile. Thin outer shell had protected its liquid. But after the boiling water, its inside became hardened.Coffee powder changes to a unique experience. Once in boiling water, they changed the water. "You are including which ones?," Asked her father. "When difficulties come to you, how do you cope? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee? "
How about you? Am I the carrot that seems hard, but with the existence of suffering and trouble, you give up, become soft and lose your strength.
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart? With a dynamic spirit, but after a death, heartbreak, divorce or dismissal becomes hard and rigid. From the outside looks the same, but if you become bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and heart?
Or are you like the coffee bean? Coffee powder changes the hot water, something that causes pain, to reach it's maximum at a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius. When the water reaches the temperature of the hottest, coffee was more enjoyable. If you like the coffee bean, when things get worse, you will become better and make things around you are also improving..

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