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| Short Story - 7 - Potato Egg Coffee Bean |
Once upon a time, a daughter complained to her father about how miserable her life was and how she didn't know how she was going to get by. She was tired of constantly fighting and struggling. It seemed that as soon as one problem was solved, another one emerged.
Her chef father took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and set them on high heat. When the first of the three pots began to boil, he added potatoes to one, eggs to the second, and ground coffee beans to the third.
He then left them to boil without saying anything to his daughter. The daughter moaned and waited impatiently, wondering what he was doing.
He turned off the stoves after twenty minutes. He poured the potatoes into a bowl after removing them from the pot. He took the eggs out of the carton and placed them in a bowl.
He then poured the coffee into a cup and ladled it out. He turned to face her and inquired. “What do you see, daughter?”
She quickly replied, "Potatoes, eggs, and coffee."
“Look closer and touch the potatoes,” he said. She did, and she commented on how soft they were. After that, he asked her to crack an egg. She examined the hard-boiled egg after removing the shell. Finally, he requested that she take a sip of the coffee. Her face lit up as she inhaled its heady scent.
“What does this mean, Father?” she inquired.
He went on to say that the potatoes, eggs, and coffee beans had all been exposed to the same danger: boiling water.
Each person, on the other hand, reacted differently.
The potato went in tough, hard, and unyielding, yet it softened and weakened in boiling water.
The egg was delicate, with a thin outer shell preserving the liquid interior until it was dropped into boiling water. The egg's interior then turned firm.
The ground coffee beans, on the other hand, were one-of-a-kind. They changed the water after being exposed to the hot water and developed something new.
“Which of you are you?” he inquired of his daughter. “How do you respond when misfortune comes on your door? “Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”.
Moral: Things happen to us and around us in life, but the only thing that matters is what happens within us.
Which one are you?
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