•are you a carrot? an egg? or a coffee bean?

in our study improvement session, still at dost summer orientation and enrichment program, we are asked first if how well do we know ourselves. and then, she asked everyone else if fate favors us to be a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean, what would we be and why?

then she showed up a presentation. we read it and i’ll share with you what have i learned from the session.

a young girl asked her father what’s the difference between people. her father had her at the table then he pick a casserole and put it on fire. he then pour a boiling water into the casserole and one by one lay into it the carrot, the egg and the coffee bean. he told her daughter to cover the casserole and be back after sixty minutes.

twenty minutes had passed and the daughter asked her father what does it means. the father replied – haven’t you noticed the changes? these three will characterize the difference between people. they were all put into the same instance, same adversity, same temperature and same boiling water. the carrot turned squashy and spongy. the egg seemed to break its shell and became a hard-boiled egg. the coffee bean vanished but it is still there, the aroma, the color and it turned the boiling water into a coffee.

the young girl was curious and retorted – so? does that makes people differ father? i mean, what would the carrot and the egg and the coffee bean have to do with people? is it what they eat most? or what they prefer to it?

the father reacted – no, dear. the carrot, the egg and the coffee bean are the people. life comes at us rushing from out of the darkness and when it does, we struggle to find the courage to face it. it is when we are in test we discover truly who are we and find out who can we be.

are you a carrot?

- the ones who seemed to be so strong, well-built and sturdy but once tested and put into life’s difficulty will drastically turned into yielding ones. these are the ones who pretend to be enormous, as if no one could ever defeat them and put them down but they are just dead serious fooling their selves knowing that they are just pretending. they are easily worn out and let the challenges make them weak.

are you an egg?

-the ones who seemed to be on their comfort zone, the weaklings and the soft-hearted but when examined into massive harsh conditions would find out that they can be as strong as anyone else and come up beyond their shells. these are the fragile ones, they are always put into test. people look at them as scrawny and unable to fight for their selves. but when you reach their boiling point, they will suddenly evolve into someone afar from every expectation. they learn to fight back when they have to.

or are you a coffee bean?

-the kind of persons that would change the adversity as something that could be a part of them, that would be positive and look every difficulty as a form of ordeal to make them stunning. these are the ones who are capable of changing the world. they have the solutions to make things better when they are tested. they don’t fight back, they just let the disputation pass by and be who they are until such disputation become its strength.

if i’ll ask you now, what would you be – a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?