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Butterfly and cocoon
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening
appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for few hours as it struggled to
force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any
progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no
farther.
Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a
pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly
then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.
That man continued to watch the butterfly because he
expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to
support the body, which would contract in time.
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of
its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was
able to fly.
What this man in his kindness and haste did not understand
was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to
get through the tiny opening were nature's way of forcing fluid from the body
of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it
achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If
nature allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would
cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. And we could
never fly...
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