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THE CARROT, THE EGG

AND THE

COFFEE BEAN

Put three pots of water over the fire.

In the second pot, put some eggs.

In the third pot, put some coffee beans that have been grounded into coffee powder.

The carrots went in hard. They are now soft. The eggs went in soft inside. Now they are hard inside.

But the water has the colour and the wonderful smell of coffee. The coffee powder has disappeared.

We work very hard but get few results. What happens when we face difficultiesdifficulties? Things don’t happen like we wish. People don’t treat us like we hope.

Now think about the pots. The boiling water is like the problems of life.

We get very tired. We lose hope. We give up. There is no more fighting spirit. Don’t be like the carrots! Don’t be like the carrots!

We can be like the eggs. We start with a soft and sensitive heart. We end up very hard and unfeeling inside.

We can be like the coffee beans. The water does not change the coffee powder. The coffee powder changes the water!

The water has become different because of the coffee powder. See it. Smell it. Drink it. The hotterhotter the water, the betterbetter the taste.

We have new knowledge, new skills, new abilities. We grow in experience.

We make the world around us better.