Lessons for a father - Pistachios Anybody?

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I love pistachios! We cannot finish a trip to the local wholesale store without me getting my hands on them. Looks like, luckily, we have been able to transfer the same pistachio love to our son too!

While going through our last batch of the amazing nut, a thought came to my mind. The process of eating them resembled our lives so much.

The box of pistachios represented, to me, opportunities that we get in our lives. To get to the fruit, we had to put in hard work. If we work hard enough, we will, once in a while, get an opportunity, in the form of nuts that are already cracked open. What we do with the fruits of our labor is completely up to us. 

What I also realized that even after putting in hard work, some nuts are going to be bad. We often face situations like that in real life. After a lot of effort, all we get is failure. And just like our relationship with the pistachios, we must brush failure aside and move on.

Another truth that I realized was how much better the overall experience was when I started sharing the fruits of my labor with my wife and kid. I had this vision of what I wanted to do with my opportunities. Their addition and, in turn, our collaborative teamwork gave rise to a whole another level of awesomeness.

There we go then. A box of pistachios and an open mind that is ready to be inspired can teach us all we need to know about dealing with opportunities, hard work, failure and success and our continuous march forward. 

The box of pistachios is a metaphor of course. Life is not that easy. There are multiple nuances to whatever it is that we deal with. But, and we must admit this, our evolution into a better form of our selves does involve conditions that are way simpler than we think. Sometimes all that is required is for us to crack open a few pistachios and enjoy what comes out.