The story of the butterfly...

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 squeeze its body through the tiny hole.
Then it stopped, as if
it couldn't go further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and
snipped off the remaining bits of
cocoon.
The butterfly emerged easily but
it had a swollen body and
shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch it,
expecting that any minute the wings would
enlarge
and expand enough to support the body,
Neither happened!
In
fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life
crawling around.
It was
never able to fly.
What the man in his kindness
and haste did not understand:
The
restricting cocoon and the struggle
required by the butterfly to get through
the opening
was a way of forcing the fluid from the body
into the wings so
that it would be
ready for flight once that was achieved.
Sometimes struggles are exactly
what we need in our lives.
Going
through life with no obstacles would cripple us.
We will not be as strong as
we could have been
and we would never fly.