Hey all,
Read this and share with me what you are. :D
I'm a coffee bean for sure. :)
Carrot, Egg, or Coffee Bean?
A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In one, he placed carrots, in the second, he placed eggs, and in the last, he placed ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil, without saying a word. The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. In about twenty minutes, he turned off the burners. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then he ladled the coffee out and placed it in a mug.
Turning to her, he asked, "Darling, what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. 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. She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
She humbly asked, "What does it mean, Father?"
He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. But 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," he asked his daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?"
How about you, my friend? Are you the carrot that seems hard, but with pain and adversity do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength?
Are you the egg, which starts off with a malleable heart? Were you a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a divorce, or a layoff, have you become hardened and stiff? Your shell looks the same, but are you bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and heart?
Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean changes the hot water, the thing that is bringing the pain, to its peak flavor when it reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit. When the water gets the hottest, it just tastes better.
If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and make things better around you.
How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?
Give me your views - What are you?
Cheers,
Archna
From India, Delhi
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115Read this and share with me what you are. :D
I'm a coffee bean for sure. :)
Carrot, Egg, or Coffee Bean?
A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In one, he placed carrots, in the second, he placed eggs, and in the last, he placed ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil, without saying a word. The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. In about twenty minutes, he turned off the burners. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then he ladled the coffee out and placed it in a mug.
Turning to her, he asked, "Darling, what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. 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. She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
She humbly asked, "What does it mean, Father?"
He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. But 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," he asked his daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?"
How about you, my friend? Are you the carrot that seems hard, but with pain and adversity do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength?
Are you the egg, which starts off with a malleable heart? Were you a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a divorce, or a layoff, have you become hardened and stiff? Your shell looks the same, but are you bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and heart?
Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean changes the hot water, the thing that is bringing the pain, to its peak flavor when it reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit. When the water gets the hottest, it just tastes better.
If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and make things better around you.
How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?
Give me your views - What are you?
Cheers,
Archna
From India, Delhi
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I used to be carrot when i started my career, became a egg in the middle of my career and now I have accomplished being a coffee bean :D
From India, Bangalore
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Hi,
It happens with most of us. We are generally carrots at the start; even I was like that. But some people remain the same throughout their life - a carrot, soft. Let us see if some more people share with us what they are.
Cheers,
Archna
From India, Delhi
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It happens with most of us. We are generally carrots at the start; even I was like that. But some people remain the same throughout their life - a carrot, soft. Let us see if some more people share with us what they are.
Cheers,
Archna
From India, Delhi
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I think I would relate to being an egg... I started off being soft and vulnerable. Like an egg, my outer being appears just the same from outside—soft, but I feel determination and sheer strength flowing through me now
I don't feel a few bitter experiences in my professional career have made me "bitter" or "stiff" in the negative sense, but yeah, they certainly have made me strong, determined, and unrelenting instead of wanting to give up. For me, being a bean means reaching that level of perfection when I'd be completely unaffected by events around me. Striving for that stage
@Archnahr - Thanks for starting the beautiful thread
From India, Ludhiana
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I don't feel a few bitter experiences in my professional career have made me "bitter" or "stiff" in the negative sense, but yeah, they certainly have made me strong, determined, and unrelenting instead of wanting to give up. For me, being a bean means reaching that level of perfection when I'd be completely unaffected by events around me. Striving for that stage
@Archnahr - Thanks for starting the beautiful thread
From India, Ludhiana
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