Are you the coffee bean ?

- Are you the coffee bean :

A young woman went to her mother and started complaining about life and how hard it is . She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling every single day .

It seemed that, as one problem was solved, a new one appears . Her mother took her to the kitchen. She took three pots  and fill them with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans.

She let them sit and boil, without saying a word. In about twenty minutes, she came back and  turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she placed coffee it in a bowl. "Tell me, what do you see?" : she asked her daughter .

"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," the young woman replied. The mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. She then asked her to take an egg and break it. After removing the shell, he looked at the hard-boiled egg. Finally, she asked her to have a coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same boiling water  but each reacted differently. The carrot became strong, hard and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water lost its strenghts 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 harder! The ground coffee beans were unique, but after they were in the boiling water, look at what they did  they changed the water itself .

"Which are you?" the mother asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you an egg, a carrot , or a coffee bean?" Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong but, with pain i become soft and lose my strength? Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but the hot water changes it? Did I I had a fluid mind, but after a death, separation or difficult financial situation, my skin looks the same, but inside I'm bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and a hardened heart? Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean could  change  the hot water and circumstance that brought  the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavour.

Moral of the story : If you are like the bean, you get better and change the situation around you, when things are at their worst even When the time gets really tough, do you elevate to another level? How do you handle the new situation ? now let me ask you : Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?

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