A Butterfly Lesson

One day, a samll opening appeared in a cocoon, a man sat and watched for the butterfly for a few hours as it struggled to force its body thru that little hole.

Then it seems to stop making any progress. It appears as if it had gotten as far as this and it could not have gone any further from here. So the man decided to help by taking a scissors and cut opened the cocoon.

Then the butterfly emerged easily and try to fly. But, it had a withered body, it was tiny, shriveled wings. The man continue to watch because he expected the butterfly to open its wings, large and expanded, able to hold the body. Neither of this happen. In fact, the butterfly was seen crawling around with a withered body and shriveled wings. It can't fly.

The man in his kindness and his goodwill did not understand that the restricting cocoon and the struggle is required for th ebutterfly to get thru the tiny opening, were the nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of thebutterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes, struggle are exactly what we need in life. If we were allowed to go thru life without any obstacle, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been. Never ever able to fly.