The Father And The Son
A boy named
John was upset. His father found him crying.
When his
father asked John why he was crying, he said that he had a lot of problems in
his life.
His father
simply smiled and asked him to get a potato, an egg, and some coffee beans. He
placed them in three bowls.
He then
asked John to feel their texture and then fill each bowl with water.
John did as
he had been told. His father then boiled all three bowls.
Once the
bowls had cooled down, John’s father asked him to feel the texture of the
different food items again.
John noticed
that the potato had become soft and its skin was peeling off easily; the egg
had become harder and tougher; the coffee beans had completely changed and
filled the bowl of water with aroma and flavor.
Moral
Life will
always have problems and pressures, like the boiling water in the story. It’s
how you respond and react to these problems that counts the most!