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 A young woman went to her mother, complaining about her life and how it was filled with difficulties. She isn't know how to behave, and are willing to give up because she tired from fighting and resistance. It looks as if it whenever solves a problem, another problem has emerged instead.
Her mother took her to the kitchen where filled three pots with water and then put them on a strong fire.

 Shortly after the water began to boil, placed carrots in the first pot, then placed eggs in the second pot, then put ground coffee in the third pot. Pots continue to boil. After about ten minutes she shuts burner keys.
She taken out carrots from the pot and placed it in a dish, then taken out the eggs and placed it in a dish, and pour the coffee in a cup .
 Then she turned to her daughter, and asked her, tell me what you are seeing? The daughter said: carrots, eggs, and coffee. She brought the pots for her daughter and asked her to catch the carrots and testing it, the daughter did, and she noticed that the carrots become mushy. Then asked her to take an egg and break it, after she peeling it, the daughter noticed how boiled eggs were frozen.
 Finally, the mother asked her to taste the coffee. The daughter smiled while she was testing the fragrant rich coffee. Here the daughter asked, what does that mean, Mom?
Her mother explained that each of the three materials may be placed in the same hostile conditions (boiling water). But every one of them interacts in a different way. Carrots, was solid unrelenting. But when put in boiling water, it has become soft and weak.
 The eggs were liquid, its external surface is protecting by the liquid interior material. But after staying in boiling water, it has become solid from the inside.
But ground coffee was different. Because after staying in boiling water, it was able to change the water itself.

 My brother and sister ... when non-favorable conditions knock your doors, how to respond? Do you look like carrots? Or like eggs? Or like the coffee?
You must think : Who are you? Are you like carrots, look like a strong solid, but with pain and adversity you lose your strength and stiffness?
Or you like eggs, have a malleable heart, but because of the tragedies become suffused!
Is your internal spiritual was as thin as water, but after a death case or after an emotional shock, you become suffused?
Is your outside frame still has the same shape, but from the inside became fill of bitterness and the cruel heart?
Or you look like coffee grains milled? Actually changed the boiling water, when the water began to boil came out of the coffee a sweet taste, and a good smell.
 If you're like coffee beans, whatever the circumstances at their worst, you become better and change the situation around you. Are you like carrots, or eggs, or Ben granules coffee?