044 Sweet When Pressed
Hey Sugarcane, you store your sweetness in your stem, and it all comes out the moment you are crushed.
Is that what comes out of us when we are pressed?
What comes out of you when you are pressed?
At a roadside stall, a man feeds a stick of sugarcane into an iron crusher. The rollers squeeze it flat.
And out pours sweet green juice.
What really happens
Sugarcane stores sugar in its stem. It is the plant's own food store.
When the cane is crushed, all that sweetness comes out.
How we know: Sugar storage in the cane stem is basic crop science.
The turn
Pressure shows what is inside us. Under stress, some people turn bitter. Some turn sweet.
What comes out is what was stored.
Three takeaways
- Pressure reveals what you have stored.
- Store kindness in good times, and it comes out in hard ones.
- You cannot squeeze out what is not inside.
Crush the cane, and you find out what it was holding.
Fire tries gold, misfortune tries brave men.