Shoving the paper in my bookshelf and it has been laying there for a few months already,poor paper.
I wanted to read it previously but I have no time to do so 'cause I was busying with course and Easter thingy and laziness was the main reason larh actually HAHA!! So I've go through it just now as the title of the passage has been attracting my attention for a few months! I found that it was an awesome reading material and we have to read this kind of story often! Let me share it with you.
Handling the heart
A young women went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen and filled three pots with water and place them over a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In the first one she placed carrots,in the secong she placed eggs and in the last, oolong tea. She let the pots and boil without saying a word.
About 20mins later, she turned off the burners. She fished out the carrots and placed them in a bowl. She pulled out the eggs and placed them in a bowl. Then she poured the oolong tea into a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked,"Tell me what you see."
"Carrots, eggs and oolong tea," the daughter replied.
Her mother beckoned her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell,she looked at the half-boiled egg.
Finally the mother asked the daughter to sip the oolong. The daughter smiled as she tasted the tea's rich in aroma, then asked,"What does it mean,mother?"
The mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each react differently. The carrot went in strong, hard and unrelenting. However,after being subjected to the boiling water,it softened and became weak.
The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting in the boiling water, its inside hardened.
The oolong tea was unique,however. After the leaves had been in the boiling water, they had changed colour and taste of the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door,how do you respond? Are you the carrot, an egg or oolong tea? Think of this: Which am I?"
"Am I the carrot seems strong, but with pain and adversity, do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?"
"Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a break-up, financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside, am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?"
"Or am i like the oolong tea? The tea actually changes the hot water,the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavour. If you're like the tea, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? "
Are you a carrot, an egg or oolong tea?
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy!
REMEMBER : -
Whatever your dream is, go for it. There is no harm in dreaming, for without a dream, you would not have any goals in life. What makes the dream beautiful is not the destination but the journey towards achieving your dream; the bitter sweet experience that you will encounter along the way, the support from the people closest and dearest to you and most of all, the faith that you must have in yourself.
Believe in yourself and the dream will be yours.
Don't give up
Be hardworking
Responsible
Patient
Tolerant
Courageous
Resilient
Courteous
Contented
Grateful* * *
I shall end here as I have a one-day primary school's trip with my mother and siss tomorrow!
Hmmm....hope to get new things and enjoy99.
Ohhya somebody disappointed me yesterday and I had set myself free. Stood alone Proudly & highly.
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I hurt my cute little toe after coming back from church,OUCH!
I didn't scream out loud,I didn't want to be a cry baby,I want to bear it and deal with it!
I stared at it,looking at it and feel its numb! After a few seconds,(I didn't cry out)
I shouted out,"Mum do you have disinfectant????!!!!!!!"
Hahaha I took a photo of it after nursing the wound coz it looked soo cute. haha!
Klar time to go to bed,gud night! xoxo
