To all my friends and "foes",
semoga bisa memetik sedikit faedah dari tulisan ini yang memberikan nasehat
bagi kita2 ini yang menjalani kehidupan se-hari2, banyak ketawa disamping itu
banyak kesedihan dan kekecewaan, tapi dibalik itu semua ,ada juga a silver
lining tergantung bagaimana kita membawakan diri didunia ini.
salam,
Harry Adinegara
Subject: Trials and tribulations of life
Which one are you?
Carrot, Egg, and Coffee
A carrot, an egg, and a cup of coffee...You will never look at a cup of coffee
the same way again. A young woman went to her mother and told her 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 mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed
each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil.
In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the
last she placed ground coffee beans.
She let them sit and boil, without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she
turned off the burners.
She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs
out and placed them in a bowl.
Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her
daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see." "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she
replied.
Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots.
She did and noted that they were soft.
The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling
off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.
Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled
as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity:
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 beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling
water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter.
"When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond?
Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?"
Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and
adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat?
Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a break-up, a financial hardship
or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff?
Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a
stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean?
The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the
pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavour.
If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and
change the situation around you.
When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate
yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity?
Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you
strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just
make the most of everything that comes along their way.
The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go
forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around
you is crying.
You might want to send this message to those people who mean something to you
(I JUST DID); to those who have touched your life in one way or another; to
those who make you smile when you really need it; to those who make you see the
brighter side of things when you are really down; to those whose friendship you
appreciate; to those who are so meaningful in your life.
If you don't send it, you will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten
someone's day with this message! It's easier to build a child than repair an
adult. This is so true - may we all be COFFEE.
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