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A man found a cocoon of an emperor moth. He took it home so that he could watch

the moth come out of the cocoon. On that day a small opening appeared, he sat

and watched the moth for several hours as the moth struggled to force the 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. It

just seemed to be stuck. Then the man, in his kindness, decided to help the

moth, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the

cocoon. The moth then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small,

shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the moth 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 little moth

spent the rest of

its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled body and s hriveled

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

moth to get through the tiny opening was the way of forcing fluid from the body

of the moth into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved

its freedom from the cocoon. Freedom and flight would only come after the

struggle. By depriving the moth of a struggle, he deprived the moth of health.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go

through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be

as strong as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance.

Yours

George Pillai

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