Richly Brewed Coffee

A story is told of this young lovely gal who had everything going on for her till one day she woke up an it was all gone. Suddenly day turned into night, everything went wrong and it seemed as though she had lost everything. So she cried until she could cry no more. Days went by, time matched on, but her life remained full of misery

So one day she woke up and decided that she couldn’t take it anymore. So she went to her dad, who was a chef and told him that she had given up on life. Enough was enough! she said. Her dad listened to her keenly, then asked her to gather three pans, fill them with water, and in one pan, put carrots, in the other, put eggs, and in the other, put coffee. Then he asked her to boil them. After a few minutes, he asked her to tell him what she had observed.

The eggs were pretty fragile before the boiling, she said, but after boiling, they became hardened. The carrots were pretty hard, but after boiling they became softened. And what about the coffee, her dad asked. The coffee was, well, just coffee, but after boiling, it become nicely rich with an alluring aroma

That's how it is my daughter, said her dad. We always go through hard times. It is up to us to either be the egg, which is so fragile, but after going thro hardship, we become cold and hardened and enclosed within ourselves. Or we can be the carrot, acting all tough and strong, till we go thro troubles, then we soften and become vulnerable. We should always aspire to be like coffee, made refined, sweater, better and more desirable by the experiences we go thro. Our experiences should add value to our lives, not make it worse. We should grow thro every one of our experiences.

'That which does not kill you can only make you stronger '- Tupac Amaru Shakur