Trials of Life

A child complaining to his father about his 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 like every time one problem is completed, new problems arise. His father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and put it on the fire. Soon the pots came to boil. He put the carrots in the pan first, second and eggs in the pan he put ground coffee in the pot 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 he turned off the fire. He set aside the carrots and put them in the bowl, picked up eggs and put it in another bowl, and pour the coffee in another bowl. Then he asked his daughter, "What you see, son?"

"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
His father brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. His father then asked him to take an egg and break it. After throwing his 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 the strong, hard and difficult to break. But after boiling, carrots become soft and tender. The egg had been fragile. Thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But after the boiling water, its inside became hardened. Coffee powder changes to a unique experience. Once in the boiling water, they changed the water. "You are including which one?" Asked his father. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee?"

How about you? Are you the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my 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 am I like the coffee bean? Coffee grounds to change 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, the coffee taste better and better. If you like the coffee bean, when things get worse, you will become better and make things around you are also improving.

Satisfaction lies in the business, not the outcome. Trying hard is the ultimate victory. (Mahatma Gandhi)