In Hot Water?

Take a pot of boiling water. If you put a potato in it, in a few minutes the boiling water will cause the potato to change and become soft; even mushy. If you put an egg in boiling water, in a few minutes the boiling water will cause the egg to change and become hard. But if you put a teabag in boiling water, the teabag doesn't change. Instead, the teabag changes the boiling water and improves its flavor. When you get in hot water, does it make you get mushy and fall apart? Does it make you harden? Or does the difficulty draw out of you an ability to make the situation better? It's the same hot water. What we are made of makes all the difference in how we react.