I’d love to be able to quote this excerpt, but unfortunately I don’t remember where I read it or where it’s from. I’m going to re-write this story in my own words as I remember it. If anybody recognize where it came from, please let me know.
Someday, some place, there was this girl struggling about some issue. She asked her mother, “mother, what do I do?” The mother then took her to the kitchen. She boiled three pots of water, and put eggs, carrots, then coffee to each pot. She asked the girl, “now, what do you see?” The girl opened the first pot, took out the eggs, peeled them and saw the hard boiled eggs. She opened the second, and saw the carrots had been softened. She opened the third, smelled the aroma and smiled as she tasted the rich, deep flavor. She asked her mother, “what does this all mean?”
The moral of the story is that these three things all faced the same adversity and they all reacted differently. The eggs became hard, the carrots became soft, but the coffee used the adversity, changed it, and evolved. When we face challenges, we can give in to them, but we can also learn to work with them, collaborate and turn them into something even greater. We have this power, and it’s only our decision.
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