Awe-Inspiring Conversation Between A Father And A Daughter!
Everything we see is perspective!
Our perception of something is always very different from another person’s. Seeing from another person’s perspective helps you understand things in a different light and opens up the path for a lot more understanding and tolerance. To understand this in a much better way, I will share a story we can get closure to. Sometimes small situations create a broader meaning of life, and to understand these, we don,t need to go for rocket science.
Once upon a time, a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how to make it.
She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, then another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen, and he filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire.
Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil without saying a word to his daughter.
The daughter moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes, he turned off the burners.
He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and put them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup.
Turning to her, he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?
Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look closer,” he said, “and touch the potatoes.” 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, and its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs, and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity-the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato went in intense, complex, and unrelenting, but it became soft and weak in boiling water.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After being exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which one are you?” he asked his daughter.
“When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
Moral of the story:
In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is how you choose to react to it and what you make out of it. Life is all about learning, adapting, and converting all the struggles we experience into something positive. You have to change your ideas or behavior to deal with them successfully.
I want to dedicate this story to some of the constant readers and authors who had supported me during my initial days on Medium, to whom I am very grateful. I am also thankful to my new readers, who have beautiful souls, and I love their stories.
I want to pay my Sincere Regards to Dr. Fatima Imam Dr. Preeti Singh Terry Mansfield Donnette Anglin Yana Bostongirl Thief Kristina Segarra Alberto García 🚀🚀🚀 Krishna V Chaudhary Dazzling Shene Fasiha Imran Gurpreet Dhariwal Jeofrey Ogire Maria Rattray Tom Handy Opal A Roszell
Thank you to Pene Hodge to publish this story in her publication Our Soul In Words