Wednesday 30 July 2014

The chef and his son

Once upon a time there was a child complained to her father about her life and asking why life was so hard for her. He did not know how to deal with it and almost gave up. He was tired of fighting. It seems like every time one problem is completed, a new problem arises.

Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. then fill three pots with water and put it on fire.
Once the water in the pots came to boil. He put carrots in the pan first, the egg in the second pot and he put the coffee powder in the pan last. He let it boil without saying a word. The boy silence and waited impatiently, wondering what he was doing. After 20 minutes, the father put the fire out.
She fished the carrots out and placed in a bowl, lifting the eggs and put them in another bowl, and
pour the coffee in a bowl.

Then he asked her, "What do you see, son?" "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied. He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. 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. He smiled when tasting coffee with rich aroma. After that, the boy asked, "What does it mean, Dad?"

He explained that each had faced 'difficulties' are the same, through the process of boiling water, but each reacted differently.
Boiled carrots before a strong, hard and difficult broken. But after boiling, carrots become soft and tender. Egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid. But after boiling, its inside became hardened. Coffee powder changes unique. Once in boiling water, they had changed the water.

"Which are you ?," asked his father. "When difficulties come to you, how did you deal with it? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean? "How about you? Are you a carrot yangmulanya is hard, tough, strong but after the arrival of the trials in the form of depression you become soft, mushy?
"Or are you the egg, which was initially weak, fragile but with the coming trials and obstacles you become strong with capable through?

"Or are you like the coffee bean? Hot coffee powder change, with the arrival of the trials and obstacles come you were able to affect anyone around you for the same - same for the better?
"If you like coffee grounds, when the situation became worse, you will become better and make things better around you as well."