‘Carrots, eggs, and coffee,’ he replied.
Finally, the mother asked the son to sip the coffee.. The son smiled as he tasted its rich aroma.
The son then asked, ‘What does it mean, mother?’
His 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 son. ‘When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?’
Which one are we? Are we the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do we wilt and become soft and lose our strength?
Are we the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did we have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have we become hardened and stiff? Does our shell look the same, but on the inside are we bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or are we 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 flavor. Are we are like the bean, when things are at their worst, we get better and change the situation around us. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest do we elevate ourselves to another level? How do we handle adversity? Are we a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
May we have enough happiness to make us sweet, enough trials to make us strong, enough sorrow to keep us human and enough hope to make us happy.
Moral: 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; we can’t go forward in life until we let go of our past failures and heartaches. When we were born, we were crying and everyone around us was smiling.. We need to live our life so at the end, we are the one who is smiling and everyone around us is crying.
May we all be the COFFEE !!!!
Great inspirational story to start a new week.
Thanks Sara, more wisdom!
Dear SARA,
It is really adorable bringing the TRUE Facts of mother NATURE!!
Excellent..Please keep on…
MRK
A very nice story Sara and thanx a lot for sending me this mail. I guess I’m more of the carrot type and Insha Allah I’ll try to become the COFFEE……..
In fact very few of us are like coffee not just you. May we all become coffee one day and remain to be so In shaa Allah 🙂
No words to say.The mother nature teaches us the way we should live.I congratulate you Sara and thank u for opening our eyes make us face the life.
Welcome Prakaasam.
really true,I am a coffee lover
nice
t’s time for coffee!!
Good, Very True. Blessings
Thanks.
Have a nice day Aziz!
VERY VERY NICE STORY, THANKS FOR SHARING.
Why we are the one who is smiling, but everyone around us are crying? Still we need to smile while the other are crying!
Very motivating story, todays youth need to be patience .
Very nice. Keep it up. Bless you.
a very good moral may extract from this story…..it needs concentration to bring change in our present condition……such moral stories are very rare now for our youth…..they use their eyes except of using their minds……they use their eyes at cell msgs at internet at games…….and there lives devil in their vacant minds….
the said moral story is no doubt a valuable story but there should be some plate form for our youth,how to use their energy and hw to save their career.
their should be some friendly guidance for them……not only a plat form a guidance but a caring eye all the time at their activities….the activities from morning till night,,,,,,,the activities which strt in the morning with cell phone and and ends till late night as a last point of their home work
may God almighty reward you abundantly for motivation and inspiration are the key ingredients that keeps us moving on all our endavours. God bless you SARA
Thankyou Usman.
Please, please, this one made me cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ummmmm why????? 🙂
Salam Sara,
It was a long time since my last visit here, but its just like it was yesterday!! Time really flies fast. u guys never let your viewers down. full of motivational stories that relates and deals with the problems of life and how to overcome it and to know how to stand up whenever adversity and difficult times trips us down. In addition to all that, theres always a need for some humor a laughter to complete the beauty of the morning each day. Thank u 🙂
Mohamoud nice to see you back.
life is good and good to live it up…always going straight for all possible kinds is way of life.
To change the whole situation, one has to extinct its existence, as the case with beans.
This is a nice lesson I have learned olot
This is a nice lesson I have learned o lot
very nice
in arabic there r similar wisdoms
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learn positive and move forward…its life.