The boy’s father was a chef, who took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and put it on the fire. Soon the pots came to boil. He put the carrots in the pan first, second and eggs in the pan he put ground coffee in the pot last. He let it boil without saying a word. The child is silent and waited impatiently, wondering what he was doing his father. After 20 minutes, she turned off the fire. He set aside the carrots and put them in the bowl, lift the egg and put it in another bowl, and pour coffee in another bowl.

Then he asked his daughter, “What did you see, son?” “Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” replied the boy. Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. then his son did and noted that they were soft. His father then asked him to take an egg and break it. After removing the skin, he found a hard-boiled eggs harden. Finally, her father asked her to sip the coffee. He smiled when tasting coffee with a rich aroma. After that, the boy asked, “What does it mean, Dad?” He explained that each has faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each showed different changes.

Carrots before boiling strong, hard and difficult to break. But after it’s boiled carrots, carrots become soft and tender.

Egg had been fragile. Thinness of the shell serves to protect the contents inside the liquid. But after boiling in water, its inside became hardened.

Coffee powder changes to a unique experience. Once in the boiling water, they changed the water. “You include which one?,” Asked his father. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee?”

How about you? 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? With a dynamic spirit, but after the death, heartbreak, divorce or dismissal becomes hard and rigid. From the outside looks the same, but did you become bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and heart?

Or am I like the coffee bean? Coffee grounds to change the hot water, something that causes pain, to reach it’s maximum at a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius. When the water reaches the temperature of the hottest, the coffee taste better and better. If you like the coffee bean, when things get worse, you will become better and make things around you are also improving.
So life is like a wheel that rotates continuously, sometimes we are under, and also sometimes we are on top. This requires a change of life, where every change that will produce something beautiful.
Because this life is a struggle, we must fight for change our lives.
God bless you …