What important is how you react, not what occurs to you

Once upon a time, a girl told her father that her life was awful and that she didn't know how she was going to get through it. She was tired of constantly fighting and struggling. It appeared that as soon as one problem was overcome, another one arose.

Her chef father escorted her to the kitchen. He put three pots of water on a high fire, one on top of the other. He put potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second, and ground coffee beans in the third once the three pots had started to boil.

Without saying anything to his daughter, he then let them sit and boil. The daughter sighed and waited nervously, unsure of what daddy was up to.
He turned off the stoves after twenty minutes. He poured the potatoes into a bowl after removing them from the pot. He took the boiled eggs out of the water and put them in a bowl.

He then poured the coffee into a cup and ladled it out. He turned to face her and inquired. 'What do you see, daughter?'

She quickly replied, 'Potatoes, eggs, and coffee.'

'Look closer and touch the potatoes,' he said. She did, and she commented on how soft they were. After that, he asked her to crack an egg. She examined the hard-boiled egg after removing the shell. Finally, he requested that she take a sip of the coffee. Her face lit up as she inhaled its heady scent.

'What does this mean, Father?' she enquired.

He went on to say that the potatoes, eggs, and coffee beans had all been exposed to the same danger: boiling water.

Each person, on the other hand, reacted differently.
The potato went in tough, hard, and unyielding, yet it softened and weakened in boiling water.
The egg was delicate, with a thin outer shell preserving the liquid interior until it was dropped into boiling water. The egg's interior then turned firm.
The ground coffee beans, on the other hand, were one-of-a-kind. They changed the water after being exposed to the hot water and developed something new.
'Which of you are you,' he inquired of his daughter. 'How do you respond when adversity knocks on your door? Is it a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean that you are?'