Carrot, hard boiled egg or coffee bean

A beautiful story copied from someone else.


"One day I was feeling really down, and approached my mother. She listened to my problems, then brought me to the kitchen and boiled a pot of water. She took out a carrot, and put it into the boiling water. She pointed out that the carrot turned soft. Then she took out an egg, and again put that into the water. The egg, my mother then observed, turned hard. Finally, she took out a coffee bean, and immersed that into the water and immediately, the water turned brown. My mother said, "You see, child, in life you have three choices. You can turn soft from your surroundings like a carrot, you can turn hard like an egg, or you can change your environment like a coffee bean. It's up to you what to choose, but in life you should always strive to be a coffee bean.”