I found another story from my collection (no, I didn't write it). It's about lemon tea. Yum!!
Hey I have a challenge for you; the story was written in Chinese. So yeah, it's time to pick up a new language for you now. Hehe...Nawww, I'm not that bad. I actually took some time to translate the article. However I have to warn you; I'm not a professional translator and I haven't been doing the Chinese-English translation for a long while. But since this story is really sweet and meaningful, I like to share it here. Enjoy reading! Oh by the way, for those who are Chinese literate, you may prefer reading the original article. If so, you can find the article at the end of this entry.
@@@Lemon Tea@@@
There was a couple who had a quarrel at a café. Neither one wanted to patch up. In the end the guy left angrily leaving the girl crying in the café.
Sitting at the café, the girl kept stirring the lemon tea she ordered previously in order to release her anger and frustration. The slide of lemon was mashed and hence the tea tasted bitter due to the lemon skin. She asked for a new glass of lemon tea with the skin of the lemon pealed off. The waiter threw her a glance and took away her glass.
Shortly he came back with an icy-cold lemon tea, with the skin still. The already upset girl immediately yelled at him, "I have already told you that I wanted the lemon skin to be pealed off! Didn't you hear me just now?!"
The waiter gave her another glimpse. He starred at her eyes, "Miss, calm down please." He continued, "Actually if we allow the lemon skin soaks in the tea for a longer time, its bitterness will dissolve and generates a unique bitterly sweet taste, which is what you really need now. Please calm down; why don't you think of it this way? Don't think about wanting to blend in the lemon taste by squeezing or mashing the lemon within 3 minutes. If you do so, the tea will be filthy and you'll mess up everything."
The girl was stunned by what he said. She looked at his eyes and asked, "Then how long will it take for the limonite taste blend into the tea naturally?"
He smiled and replied, "12 hours. 12 hours later, the lemon will release the essence of our life and then you'll be able to enjoy a glass of tasteful lemon tea. However, you have to be willing to wait patiently for 12 hours."
He paused and elaborated further, "Actually this philosophy doesn't only apply to making tea, but to everything that bothers us in our life. As long as you're willing to wait patiently and tolerate for 12 hours, you'll amazingly realize later that things are not that awful as you initially thought." "Are you trying to tell me something?"
He smiled, "I am only sharing with you some tips about how to make a glass of lemon tea. And I'm only casually discussing with you whether can we apply similar methodology of making tea in generating a wonderful life of our own."
He excused himself politely. The girl sat there quietly thinking through the conversation with the new glass of lemon tea in front of her.
Later on, she went home and made herself another glass of lemon tea. She cut the lemon into thin and small slices and then added them to the tea. She observed the slices of lemon soaking in the glass as though they were breathing; each and every cells of the lemon were opening up to diffuse out the essence and spirit of the lemon. 12 hours later, she found herself enjoying the best tasty and delicious lemon tea ever!
She finally understood that the drink was so tasty because the lemon has fully dissolved and blended in the tea.
The door bell was apparently ringing at that time. She opened the door. The guy was standing at the door front holding a bouquet of rose.
"Can you please forgive me?" He was blushed.
She smiled and invited him in for a glass of lemon tea. "We shall now set an agreement…we shall never get angry with each other regardless of whatever issue/conflicts we will be having. We should, however, cool ourselves down and think about lemon tea and the philosophy associated with it."
"Why do we need to think about lemon tea?" scratching his head, he asked.
"Well, we need to wait for 12 hours patiently."
Since then, the girl has been applying the secret of lemon tea in every aspect of her life. And because of this, she has not only been able to live happily but also to manage to see things from a beautiful and positive perspective.
The girl is slowly and calmly enjoying the sweetness of the lemon tea (the wonder of life).
Remember what the waiter has told us; "If you want to squeeze all the yummy lemon taste in a short period of time (i.e. 3 minutes in this example), the tea will become bitter and filthy."
Life is just like tea; if we want to enjoy a glass of tasty good lemon tea, we have to wait slowly during the process of making tea, giving enough time for the lemon to blend into the tea.
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