Tanquil
Thoughts
(WHICH ARE YOU)
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 and a new one arose.
Her father, a chef took her
to the kitchen.
He filled three pots with water
and placed each one on a high fire.
Soon the pots came to a boil.
In one he placed carrots, in
the second he placed eggs,
and 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 bowl.
Turning to his daughter 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, had
and unrelenting.
But after being subjected to
the boiling water,
it softened and became weak.
The egg had been fragile.
It's thin outer shell had protected
its liquid interior.
But after sitting through the
bowling water,
its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were
unique however.
After they were in the bowling
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, and egg, or
a coffee bean?"
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