The story of the coffee beans
One girl was complaining to her father that nothing was going right for her.
She was tired of fighting with no results. She didn’t know how to move on in her life and she felt exosted. She felt that any time she solved a probelm, another one apeared.
Her father was a chef. He took her hand and he lead her to his workplace. He grabed three pans and used each of them to boil water. When the water started to boil he put in one of them carrots, in another he put eggs and in the third pan he put coffe. He let them boil without saying a word. He just smiled to his daughter. The girl was impaciently wating, wandering what her fother might want to do. After 20 minutes he turned off the heater, put the eggs in a bowl, the carrots in a plate and the coffe in a cup. Then he asked his daughter:
“my dear, what do you see here?”
“eggs, carrots and coffe” she answered.
Then he asked her to touch the carrots. She touched them and observed that they were so soft. He then asked her to pure an eg and she observed that the egg was hard on the inside. He finally asked her to taste the coffee. Laughing, she siped the flavoured drink.
Then she asked:
“father, what does all this mean?”
he explains her that all the three elements had to endure the same adversity: the boiled water. Only that each of them reacted in a different way: the carrots softened and became easy to break; the eags became very hard under their shell but, unlike them, the coffee changed the water.
He then asked his daughter:
“to wich of these things you find yourself resemblant?”
when adversity is knocking on your door, how do you answer? Are you an aparently hard carrot that softenes when touched by the pain and loses its hardnes?
Are you like an egg that starts with a soft core and a fluid spirit but that becames hard and rigid after an unhappy event? It stays the same on the outside but on the inside its core is bittered.
Or are you like a coffe bean? The coffee changes the boiled water, the element that causes the pain. When the water reaches its peak temperature the coffee releases its best flavour and taste.