A Carrot, An Egg, And a Cup of Coffee:
After reading this, you will never look at a Carrot, an Egg or a cup of Coffee the same way again.
A young lady ran to her mother complaining how hard her life was and how she didn’t know how she was going to make it, and how she just wanted to give up. She said she was tired of fighting and struggling and having to face one problem after another.
Without saying a word, her mother took her into the kitchen, where she filled three pots with water and placed them on the stove and turned the flame up to high under each of them. Soon the pots came to a full boil. Into the first pot, the mother placed some carrots, in the second she placed some eggs, and into the last pot, she placed some ground coffee. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
After about twenty minutes, she turned off the burners. She spooned out the carrots and placed them in a bowl. Next she removed the eggs from their pot and placed them in a bowl. Then she carefully poured some of the coffee into a third bowl. Turning to her daughter she asked, “Tell me what you see.”
“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” the daughter replied.
Her mother motioned for her daughter to come closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then told her daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, the daughter found that the egg was hard-boiled. Finally, the mother asked her daughter to sip the coffee. Her daughter smiled as she smelled its wonderful aroma and tasted its rich flavor. Then the daughter asked her mother, “What does this all mean, mama?”
Her mother explained that each had faced the exact same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The Carrot went in strong and hard and unrelenting, but after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The Egg which was fragile with a thin shell to protect its liquid interior, after having been subjected to the boiling water, had its inside hardened. The ground Coffee was unique however, instead of the boiling water affecting it, it changed the water. “Which are you?” she asked her daughter. “When adversity comes knocking at your door, how do you respond? Are you a Carrot,
an Egg, or ground Coffee?”
“Which are you?” she asked, “Are you a carrot that seems strong, but wilts and becomes soft under adversity, or are you an egg who starts with a soft malleable heart that becomes hardened and stiff in the face of adversity, or are you like the ground coffee that actually changes the very circumstances that brings about pain and adversity?”
My wish for you is:
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can’t go forward until you let go of past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that at the end, you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Luv to all,
Munchkin
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