22/05/2020
EVERY PROBLEM HOLDS POSITIVE POSSIBILITIES
Every living human being has problems. Life without problems is like a mirage in the desert. Problems are just inevitable in life. Today, I just want to share an inspiring parable about transforming negative situations into positive situation in life.
Once, a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed. Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire.
Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what her father was doing.
After twenty minutes, the father turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup.
Turning to her, he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?” “Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she hastily replied. “Look closer”, he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.
Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does this mean?” she asked. The father then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity-the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently.
The potato went in strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak. The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which one are you?” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
What is the lesson from this parable?
In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is how you choose to react to it and what you make out of it. Life is all about leaning, adopting and converting all the struggles that we experience into something positive. Remember that, adversity causes some men to break down but the same adversity causes others to break records. In the toughest moment of life, choose to be the coffee beans rather than the potatoes because you have what it takes to convert your problem into a profitable business. Every problem is potential business in disguise for you or someone else. Broken heart was such a horrible experience for one man that he decided to help others who were facing similar situation and today he is successful relationship and marriage counsellor. One man’s problem is another man’s opportunity. Choose to be the coffee beans in the face of adversities.
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