I love metaphors. I even tend to overuse them. But here's something I'd read a long time ago. I don't remember where, but it was impactful enough to stay. Probably because of the power of metaphors. I can't quote exactly but I can try to paraphrase below.
There are three kinds of people in the world. Eggs, Cabbage and Tea leaves.
Boil eggs and they harden. Boil cabbage and it softens. Boil tea and it adds flavour, colour and fragrance to the boiling water itself.
It is up to each of us how we react to misfortune. Are we like eggs? Go through life hard and cynical for ever? Are we like cabbage? Go through life weak and pathetic? Or are we like tea leaves? Making the best out of every hardship we go through.
Worth thinking about, isn't it?
2 comments:
easy to say. this is one post i didn't like. i'm definitely an egg, at any rate, and i don't see how it can be otherwise.
Some days i feel like i am one of these and on some days i feel i am like all of these. Although i'd like to feel like tea all the time. Life and its myriad brewing colours.
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