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Which are you...?? Carrots, Eggs or Coffee...??

A beautiful story.. :)

Grandmother Says…Carrots, Eggs, or Coffee; 

“Which are you?”

A young woman went to her grandmother 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 grandmother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and 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 granddaughter, she asked, “Tell me what do you see?”

“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied.

She brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they got soft.She then asked her to take an egg and break it.

After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.

Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee. The granddaughter smiled, as she tasted its rich aroma. The granddaughter then asked. “What’s the point,grandmother?”

Her grandmother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity–boiling water–but 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 granddaughter.

“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 breakup, 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 a 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 flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.

When the hours are the darkest and trials are their greatest do you elevate to another level?

— AUTHOR UNKNOWN

It’s Just the Way We are…!!

We hold on to things the tightest, when we are forced to let them go—

   We always want things a certain way, when we know can't be so.

Dreams always last the longest, when they are furthest from our reach—

   And the lessons we can learn the most from, are often the very ones we teach.

The grass is always the greenest, when it lies on the other side—

   And the truths we preach to others are often those we can't abide.

We spend our time trying to see things, when perspective is one thing we lack—

   And we never appreciate what we've got, until we can't get it back.

We expect the whole world to give us a break, and yet ironically we'll find—

   That when others come asking us the same, we tell them they're out of their mind.

We tell everyone what's wrong with this world, and we do nothing to make it right—

   We complain about families falling apart, and yet do nothing to keep them tight.

We preach about loving our neighbors, and we teach children right from wrong—

   But we never set good examples for them, when real chances come along.

We complain about not having enough time in our lives, to do what we must do—

   Yet if we were given more hours in the day, we'd use up all that, too.

We desire to be close to all those we love, yet all too often look from afar—

   And when it comes to the truth do we want to change, or remain forever as we are?

" Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone" - Pablo Picasso

I ll make it to tomorrow...!

 Sometime of some day I'll be able to look back on today and be grateful for being strong..... 

But now, I'm just trying to keep my strength up to make it to tomorrow...:)

A Mistake..!!

See mistake just as a mistake not as my or his mistake                                                                 because My brings guilt and His brings anger. 

Only acceptance brings some improvement..!! :)