Food For Thought: Which are you?

A CARROT, AN EGG OR A COFFEE BEAN

I share with you a kitchen experience, as a demonstration that parallels a life perspective.

Fill 3 pots with water and place on 3 different burners at the same time. Once they begin to boil add one (a carrot in the 1st pot, an egg in the 2nd pot and a coffee bean in the 3rd) of each item to one pot and lets see what happens after 20 minutes you will turn off and watch what happens and we will discuss them.

Then lets take a closer look...

Take a closer look and feel the carrots. It is soft, yes? Then check out the egg, break it. After pulling off the shell, observed the hard boiled egg. Finally, check out the coffee bean. You can taste and smell it - check it out. It's rich aroma. 'What does all of this mean?'

Well, each of these objects had faced the same adversity or pressures.
When placed into the boiling water. Each reacted differently.

The carrot
went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, 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 bean
very unique, however. After the coffee bean was in the boiling water, It changed the water.

'Which are you?'

'When adversity knocks on your door, How do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

Think of this:

The carrot
that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?

The egg
That starts with a malleable inside, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or whatever suitation trial, whatever it may be. Have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside I am bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened interior to destroy myself?

-Or-

The coffee bean
The bean actually changes the hot water. It takes time but change things around me. The pains, within me just dissolves, along with everything else. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor.

If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst. Had no time to complain nor to hang on to the past? Moved on effortlessly and did all that was necessary and how to do it to make things work for the very best. Get better by making your necessary changes and move on effortlessly.

So, when next you think that the hour is your darkest moment and trials are at their greatest just elevate yourself to another level. How do you handle adversity?

Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

(edited and customized from the original - source: M. Mascoll via FaceBook - 2010)