Tuesday, January 30, 2007
finally after so long tml is my off day. yes! haha today worked full time again. esp after yesterday's run, my legs are going to cramp any moment. and the lactic acid that has built up from yesterday's run has made my thigh muscles super sore. now i have problems squatting down. urgh. too long nv exercise liao. haha now lag like siao. xP anyway today my fren super jia lat, the nets transaction which is denied made her pay the balance. is like around 50 dollars. so it means that her pay for today is gone. work FOC for ntuc. lol
okays, i saw this sticky at my friendster as well as my email. it seems really meaningful and interesting. o.O
The Carrot, the Egg and the Coffee
A carrot, an egg and a cup of coffee... You will never look at a cup of
coffee the same way again. A young woman went to her mother and told her
about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how
she
was going to make it and wanted to give up.
She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was
solved, a new one arose. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled
three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came
to
boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs,
and
in
the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil,
without
saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the
carrots
out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them
in a
bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me, what do you see?"
"Carrots,
eggs, and coffee," she replied. Her mother brought her closer and asked
her
to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother
then
asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the
shell,
she observed the hard boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter
to
sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The
daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same
adversity
.... boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong,
hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling
water,
it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer
shell
had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling
water, its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the
boiling
water, they had changed the water. "Which are you?" she asked her
daughter.
"When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a
carrot,
an egg or a coffee bean?" Think of this:
Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and
adversity
do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the
heat?
Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a break-up, a financial
hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my
shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter
and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water,
the
very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it
releases the fragrance and flavour. If you are like the bean, when
things
are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.
When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you
elevate
yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a
carrot,
an
egg or a coffee bean? May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and
enough
hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they
just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The
brightest
future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in
life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone
around you is crying.
Let's Rock!
8:14 PM
