A thought on Friendship...

[animar506]

A person can respond to suffering like an egg, or like a potato. A potato goes into the boiling water hard, but comes out pliable. An egg goes into the boiling water soft and comes out hard.

How do you respond? Can you change how you respond? What do you think?

Comments

[seekingtheway]

interesting observation. I've not thought of that before, and it is really fascinating

[shyallyn]

Of course you can change your repsonse. It's more a matter of self-realization. Sometimes it takes one splashing in the boiling water for them to choose whether to be the potato or the egg. Sometimes it takes more. Years of coming out hard and bitter, before you begin to realize the only thing you DO have control over in this life is how you respond. You can choose to be happy or miserable, soft or hard. Your choices in how you respond determine what kind of person you are