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 further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. 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 Life'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 lives. Remember nature needs no help, just no interference. There are processes of life, things we all go through. The struggles are a part of our journey and are preparing us for what awaits. They are preparing us to fly.
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5 comments:
Sometimes, people deserve to have no help. When they've just got hints, somehow it's the perfect help. Because people have intuitions, so they will know or do everything right away without help. Likely to a slang, "Tell them how to catch fish is better than catch fish for them".
Generally, helping shows the virtue of good human being, but helping without knowing the right goal or less information sometimes the helping is useless. Example like the man in this story. So, in the real life if we meet different situations, try to learn the situation first before we decide to help or let it goes better than help. Remember that not all difficult situation always need help.
Helping is the good committing. But sometime helping is also bring us wondering that we never expect. Like in this story the way that animal or insect live is different from people, they live in the way that the nature gave to them. So that keep them live like the way they use to live everyday is better. Some animal they live by killing each other for their life. So it's the nature.
This story show about attract of natural and animals. For the butterfly is a good for me because when I saw it that attraction my eyes. So they should love it don't killed it.Because it is enthusiastic for tourists also.
Butterfly is the symbol of enhancement. Although life has difficulties, which are no matter how big they are. Problems and difficulties are the trigger of change and betterment. This hardship teaches us to learn and grow. Be the butterfly!
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