I am having it right now. My car had problems twice this week, I've been ripped off $300 at the car service center, I spent another $200 to fix my brakes, the girl I am seeing is seeing another guy, I have been made fun at at work, I might be terminated/suspended at my other job for a silly thing, I did a good deed by helping someone but ended up biting me in the nuts because of a violation in airport security ( My company might pay a $10,000 fine, and also probably and unfairly high fine for me, you think they'll still keep me?), friends that I thought would support me doesn't really care about me, I am broke this week which means I can't go out on the weekend, I have to deal with my duty manager who I am not in kahoots with on sunday, and other small stuff.
Has something similar to this or maybe worst than this have ever happened to you within a week or maybe a month?
2006-07-21 05:05:12 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
Someone sent me this:
A young woman 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. She filled three
pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon
the pots came to boil. In the first she placed
carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the
last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit
and boil, without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners.
She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl.
She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a
bowl.
Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a
bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see."
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
Her mother brought 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 observed
the hard boiled egg.
Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the
coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich
aroma. The daughter then asked, "What does it mean,
mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had
faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted 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 through the boiling
water,its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however.After they were in the
boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When
adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are
you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?"
Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that 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 the heat?
Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a
breakup, a 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 coffee bean? The bean actually
changes the hot water, the very circumstance that
brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases
the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean,
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 a coffee bean?
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to
keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best
of everything; they just make the most of everything
that comes along their way. The brightest future will
always be based on a forgotten past; you
can't go
forward in life until you let go of your past failures
and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling
Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone
around you is crying
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Extra Note from Maya:
Things will look gloomier if you choose to see them through a grey shade.
I had a lousy month too. To cheer myself, i arrange to meet up with my old friends (to just TALK), organised a Karaoke session (I just came back from that), arranged for two weeks leave and a one week vacation.
I could stay unhappy and make everybody around me miserable. I can choose to get out of my gloom and arrange for some freshness to my life.
I hope you got what i wish to share with you. :) Be a coffee bean :)
2006-07-21 05:42:48 · answer #1 · answered by Maya 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes, this happened to me, my husband got deployed to iraq, we just had our 2nd child, she was still a newborn waking up every 2-3 hours to feed, i had another child, a boy who was peaking at terrible 2's, he got nightmares, developed behavioral problems (over his dad being away), i took him to daycare and he almost got his ear bit off, i found out my daughter was going to need surgery, our car broke down, took it for repairs and got slapped with a 3000 bill, drove our other car in the meantime and it broke down completely. i was stuck with NO car and 2 babies, we couldn't go back home b/c i have anxiety flying, not to mention 2 kids and home for us is seriously 24 hours away on a plane, all of my friends got orders to another base at the same time so i didn't have anyone to ask for help, i was breaking down emotionally...........it was just horrible. i got anxiety attacks the next time i found out my husband was gonna have to deploy. there was also a ton of other smaller stuff that was going wrong too that just pissed me the heck off. you're not alone.
2006-07-21 12:21:37 · answer #2 · answered by origchick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mine is right now to... I found out i have a overdrawn bank account and i dont get paid for another week, my fiance of 3 yrs left me 3 times for good, my friends live to far away and the ones i do have here hate me becuz my fiance lied to them about me. its been a shitty *** week for me and now im ready to get drunk, cry some more and try to move on....
2006-07-21 12:14:08 · answer #3 · answered by diamondprincezz456 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋