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Don Juan
Handling Life
"There are two ways to live your life.......
As if nothing is a miracle and as if everything is"
A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were
so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to
give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem
was solved a new one arose.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with
water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In
one he placed carrots, in the second he placed eggs, and the last he placed
ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited, wondering what he
was doing. In about twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He fished
the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed
them a bowl. Then he ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning
to her he asked. "Darling, what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted
that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After
pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked
her to sip the coffee. She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. She humbly
asked. "What does it mean Father?"
He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water,
but each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and
unrelenting. But after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened 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
hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling
water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" he asked his daughter. "When adversity
knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a
coffee bean?" Are you the carrot that seems hard, but with pain and
adversity do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength? Are you the
egg, which starts off with a malleable heart? Were you a fluid spirit, but
after a death, a breakup, a divorce, or a layoff have you become hardened
and stiff. Your shell looks the same, but are you bitter and tough with a
stiff spirit and heart?
Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean changes the hot water; the thing
that is bringing the pain, to its peak flavor reaches 212 degrees
Fahrenheit. When the water gets the hottest, it just tastes better.
If you are like the coffee bean, when things are at their worst, you get
better and make things better around you.
How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg, or coffee?
"There are two ways to live your life.......
As if nothing is a miracle and as if everything is"
A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were
so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to
give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem
was solved a new one arose.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with
water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In
one he placed carrots, in the second he placed eggs, and the last he placed
ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited, wondering what he
was doing. In about twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He fished
the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed
them a bowl. Then he ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning
to her he asked. "Darling, what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted
that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After
pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked
her to sip the coffee. She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. She humbly
asked. "What does it mean Father?"
He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water,
but each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and
unrelenting. But after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened 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
hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling
water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" he asked his daughter. "When adversity
knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a
coffee bean?" Are you the carrot that seems hard, but with pain and
adversity do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength? Are you the
egg, which starts off with a malleable heart? Were you a fluid spirit, but
after a death, a breakup, a divorce, or a layoff have you become hardened
and stiff. Your shell looks the same, but are you bitter and tough with a
stiff spirit and heart?
Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean changes the hot water; the thing
that is bringing the pain, to its peak flavor reaches 212 degrees
Fahrenheit. When the water gets the hottest, it just tastes better.
If you are like the coffee bean, when things are at their worst, you get
better and make things better around you.
How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg, or coffee?