The carrot, the egg and the coffee bean

Put three pots of water over the fire.
In the first pot, put in carrots, the eggs go into the second pot and coffee powder grinded from the coffee beans into the third.
Boil for 15 minutes, then take out what you had put in.

The carrots went in hard but are now soft within;
The eggs went in soft but came out hard inside;
The coffee powder had dissolved, leaving the water colored and aromatic.

Pause a moment to ponder upon life.
Life is not always easy or comfortable, sometimes it gets very difficult.
Things don't turn out the way we want; people don't treat us the way we want.
We worked hard but are only rewarded with very little.

Remember the three pots of boiling water?
They are like the problems we faced in our lives.

We can go in tough and strong but come out soft and weak like the carrots;
We get tired, we lose hope and we give up.
Or we can be like the eggs;
We start with a soft and sensitive heart but we end up tough and unfeeling inside;
We hate others, we dislike ourselves, we become hard-hearted.
But really, we should be like the coffee powder;
The water does not change it; it changes the water.

We should influence the directions situations in our lives are taking, and not let it take us for a ride. The hotter the water, the better the taste.

Problems and difficulties make us stronger, tougher and better. Make good lessons out of the difficulties we face, learn new things; grow in experience. Believe in yourself, keep pushing for personal success.