Struggle

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Struggle

 

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.

 

Source : experiencefestival.com