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▣ 이름 : 무명씨
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2010/03/05 - 등록 |
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커피같은 사람
인터넷에 많이 퍼져있는 글을 약간 수정했습니다.
원문은 아래에 있습니다. -amsione
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"여기 당근, 달걀, 그리고 커피 알맹이가 있습니다.
3개의 냄비에 각각 15분정도 이들을 넣고 끓여보세요
이제 3개의 냄비에 담긴 내용물들에 대해 생각해 보세요
끓는 물은 우리 인생의 시련과도 같습니다
첫번째 냄비에 당근은 단단하던 것이 물렁해집니다.
두번쨰 냄비에 계란은 물렁하던 것이 단단해집니다.
세번째 냄비에 커피는 원래모습은 없지만 향과 맛을 냅니다.
우리는 당근 처럼 될수 있습니다.
자신감 넘치고 힘차게 시작하지만
시련을 만나게 되면
너무 힘들어 지치고 희망을 잃고 결국 포기 하는
나약한 인간이 될 수 있습니다.
우리는 달걀처럼 될수도 있습니다.
시작할땐 부드럽고 감성적이지만
시련앞에서
결국 무뚝뚝하고 무감각해집니다.
자신도 미워하고 감정이 무딘 사람이 될 수도 있습니다.
우리는 커피처럼 될수도 있습니다.
이전의 모습은 변화되어 물과 하나가 되지만
시련을 통해 자신만의 커피향과 맛을 냅니다.
우리는 커피같이 될수있습니다.
커피같은 사람이 되어야 할 것입니다.
우리가 겪는 시련은
우리가 더 나아지고 강해질수 있는 기회입니다.
신념을 잃지않으며 포기하지 않고 끝까지 밀고 나가 이겨낸다면
시련속에서 독특한 자신만의 향과 멋을 낼 것입니다.
-원문
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 that as one problem was solved a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen.
She filled three pots with water. In the first, she placed carrots,
in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground
coffee beans. She let them boil without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners.
She took the carrots out of their pot and placed them in a bowl.
She removed the eggs from their boiling water 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 do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
She brought her daughter closer and asked her to feel the carrots.
The daughter did and noted that they had gotten soft.
She then asked her to take an egg and break it.
After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.
Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee.
The daughter smiled, as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked, "What's the point, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced
the same adversity – boiling water – but 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
in 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?"
The parable continues and begs the rhetorical questions:
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?
Do 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 a hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? T
he bean 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 are like the bean, when things are at their worst,
you get better and change the situation around you.
When the hours are the darkest and trials are their greatest
do I elevate to another level and just how do I handle adversity? |
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