The Carrots, The Eggs and The Coffee Beans

Today, let’s use our imagination. Are you ready?

Imagine there are some carrots, eggs and coffee beans in your hands.

What you have to do is put 3 pots of water and boil it over the fire.

In the first pot, put some carrots.

In the second pot, put some eggs.

In the third pot, put some coffee beans that have been grounded into coffee powder.

Next, boil all the three pots for 20 minutes. Take out what you put in.

Let's see the result.

The carrots went in hard but they are now soft.

The eggs went in soft inside.  Now they are hard inside.

The coffee powder has disappeared. But the water has the colour and the wonderful smell of coffee.

Now, think about LIFE. Life is not always easy and comfortable. Sometimes life is very hard, thing don’t happen like we wish and people don’t treat us like we hope. Am I right?

We work very hard but get few results. What happens when we face DIFFICULTIES?

Now, think about the pots. The BOILING WATER is like the PROBLEMS of life.

We can be like the carrots. We go in tough and strong. We come out soft and weak after facing difficulties. We get very tired, lose hope, frustrated and give up. We lose our fighting spirit.

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We can be like the eggs. We start with a soft and sensitive heart. We end up very hard and unfeeling inside because of problems in our life. We hate others, ourselves. The worst part is we become hard-hearted. No more warm feeling only bitterness in our heart.

OR

We can choose to be like the coffee beans. The water does not change the coffee powder but the coffee powder changes the water instead! The water has become different because of the coffee powder. Imagine the colour, smell and taste of coffee.The hotter the water, the better the taste.

We can be like the coffee beans. We make something good from the difficulties we face. We learn new things, knowledge, skills and abilities. We grow in experience and make the world around us better. 

To succeed, we must try and try again. That is the key of success. We must believe in what we are doing and never give up. Remember this Arabic proverb; ‘ من صبر ظفر ‘ (Man sobira zafara). The meaning is ‘Perseverance is the key of comfort’

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Problems and difficulties give us the chance to become STRONGER, BETTER and TOUGHER.

What are we like when things do not go well? Are we like the carrots, eggs or coffee beans?

So think about it.

the carrots, the eggs and the coffee beans

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