Life is 10% what
happens to you and 90% how you react to it…
Just look at the news. There are financial disasters, wars, violence & brutality, scarcity, illnesses, etc. The question is - how do you react to them?
There are many ways to react or ways to respond to problems that are happening in the world.
I would like to share a story.
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.
“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
what happens within us.
Which
one are you?
Source- https://happinessandfood.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/potatoes-eggs-and-coffee-beans/
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You always have a choice of how you are going to respond to what the world offers you
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