After about fifteen minutes of boiling, the carrot, which was hard to begin with, came out soft and squishy. The egg, fragile to begin with, became hard-boiled. It was only the ground coffee bean which was unique. It retained its original form, yet gave out something useful – coffee. It didn’t itself change, but it changed the water it had been dropped into. The mother asked the daughter which one she would like to be when adversity struck – a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean.
What would u like to be
