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 God'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. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!
Great one, you know it always takes a person to learn from his mistakes each and every time if he considers to look back and know what and where he went wrong. There are never known as mistakes if he considers them as LESSONS of moral conduct or at personal level . humans should realize their potential and make use of it as much as possible. Thanks for the story.
It is knowledge which is power and power means strength to stay even on the hardest of tracks untill you recover as a winner, Good post by the way,
Yea. touching one but a narrow mind cannot accept what it cannot digest and so is the lame and corrupt world today recognized as commonly Greedy, Success is not rated in terms of money, but in terms of happiness to get more out of life than just a pile of cash around the table or on the cheque.
This is a great post. I've never heard the story before. It's inspiring to know that sometimes the toughest obstacles in life can't be accomplished by another other than ourselves. This is a great post for someone who is struggling through college! Thank you!