I heard this a few days ago and it has really hit a chord with me, really changed my perspective on a LOT of things so I thought i would share it with you all.
A young woman walked into her mothers home after a long, stressful day at work. She spent the next hour complaining about her co-workers, the work load, the stress and everything that went wrong in her day. When she was done, her mother took her to the kitchen and put 3 pots of water on the stove to boil. In 1 she put a carrot, another an egg and in the last she put coffee beans.
After 15 minutes she asked her daughter "What do you see, what happened to the things in the pots?"
The daughter took a quick glance and replied "The carrot got mushy and broke down, the egg turned hard on the inside and the beans turned the water into coffee"
The mother then looked at her daughter and asked "Which one do you want to be? You can turn to mush like the carrot and fall apart, you can become hard on the inside like the egg or you can be the coffee beans and change how things are around you"
Really made me think about how I come at some situations.
I think i'll be the beans
Are you the carrot, the egg or the coffee bean
