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A man found a cocoon of a
butterfly. One day a small
opening .appeared; he sat
and watched the butterfly
for several 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. The 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 the 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..