Be Like Sugar

A daughter  after  living for some time   in her newly  married home ,

One day  went  to her home  and sobbed  before her mother,

The mother   with great   concern asked, “what happened  sweet one?”

The daughter  then went  on listing all   her  sufferings in a row,

And her mother   took her   to their  kitchen   and made her,

Stand before   the three  burner   stove    they had.

She then put  three  very similar   vessels  on those stoves,

Poured   same amount   of water   in all   of them,

But put  a carrot in first , egg in second and sugar  in the third,

And switched  on the stoves and  asked   her daughter  to watch,

And after   some time  she  switched  off the stove  ,

She first took out the carrot , the egg  and a sugar candy ,

And asked   her daughter  to examine  all three  of them and  she said,

“The carrot  is soft, egg   is hard   and the  sugar candy  disappeared but water   is sweet.”

“Little one”  her mother told  , “the  flame  of the stove,

Made them suffer  equally but their  reaction  seems  different.

The hard carrot was made soft, the soft egg   became  hard,

And the tasteless  water  became sweet,

Can’t you   be like   the sugar candy    in your   new home?”

A nice story ..... Moral: 

In Life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is how we choose to react to it and what we make out of it. Life is all about learning, adopting and converting all the  struggles that we experience into something positive.

Once a daughter complained to her father that her Life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed. 

Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water n placed each on a high fire. Once d three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in d second pot n ground coffee beans in d third pot. He then let them sit n boil, without saying a word to his daughter. 

The daughter, moaned n impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes he turned off d burners. He took d potatoes out of d pot n placed them in a bowl. He pulled d eggs out n placed them in a bowl. He then ladled d coffee out n placed it in a cup. 

Turning to her, he asked. "Daughter, what do you see?" 

"Potatoes, eggs n coffee", she hastily replied.

"Look closer", he said, "n touch d potatoes." 

She did n noted that they were soft. 

He then asked her to take an egg n break it. After pulling off d shell, she observed d hard-boiled egg. 

Finally, he asked her to sip d coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face. 

"Father, what does this mean?" she asked. He then explained that d potatoes, d eggs n coffee beans had each faced d same adversity, ie, boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato went in strong, hard n unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft n weak. The egg was fragile, with d thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in d boiling water. Then d inside of d egg became hard. However, d ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to d boiling water, they changed d water n 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?"