Be Like Coffee

A young boy complained to his grandfather, “Life is so hard. I feel like giving up.”

The grandfather put three pots of water on the stove. In one, he placed **carrots**.

In another, **eggs**. In the third, **coffee beans**. After a while,

he asked the boy to touch them. The carrots were soft. The eggs were hard

inside. But the coffee… had changed the water itself. The grandfather

smiled and said, “Problems are the same boiling water. Some become weak like carrots.

Some become rigid like eggs. But some **change the situation itself**—like coffee.”

**Moral:** Don’t let difficulties change you for the worse. Be like coffee—**transform