From the website The Colors of Life
http://www.coloridellavita.com/riflessioni.cfm?tid=526
A daughter complained to
her father about her life and how things were so difficult.
did not know how to continue and believed to give up.
She was tired of fighting.
seemed that when solving a problem, it appeared another.
His father, a chef, took her to the workplace.
There, filled three pots with water and placed on the fire.
When the water in the three pots began to boil, at a location some carrots, eggs and placed in another of the last placed ground coffee beans. He let the water boil without saying a word.
The daughter impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing his father .... After twenty minutes
the father turned off the fire.
He pulled the carrots out and placed them in a dish.
He pulled the eggs out and placed them in another pot.
Finally, filtered the coffee and put it in a bowl.
Watching her daughter told her: "My dear child, carrot, egg or coffee?" The
he brought and asked to touch the carrots, she did it and noticed that they were soft, and after the churches to take an egg and break it while pulling off the shell, observed the hard boiled egg. After the churches that try to drink coffee, smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. We humbly asked his daughter: "What does this mean, father?"
He explained that the three had faced the same adversity, "boiling water", but each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, proud, but after passing through the water, boiling it was weak, easy to undo. The egg had been fragile, its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after being in the boiling water, its inside became hardened. Instead, the coffee beans were unique: after being in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"What are you a daughter?" he said. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond?"
"Are you a carrot that seems strong but the problems and pain when you touch, you become weak and lose your strength? "
" Are you an egg that starts with a malleable heart and good spirit, but after a death, separation, dismissal, an obstacle on the way, it becomes hard and rigid? Externally
you equal, but within six bitter and harsh with a spirit and a hardened heart? "
" Or are you like a coffee bean? The coffee changes the water, the element that causes him pain. When the water reaches the boiling point of coffee is at its best flavor. "
" If you like the coffee bean, when things get worse, you react in a positive form, without allowing yourself to win, and make sure that things that happen to you improve, that there is always a light, in front of adversity, light your way and the people around you. "
For this reason, never fail to spread with your strength and your positive" the sweet aroma of coffee ".
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