Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives.. !

The Story of the Butterfly

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.
One day a small Opening Appeared.
He sat 'n 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 'n
snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon.
The butterfly emerged easily but
it had a swollen body 'n shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch it,
expecting that any minute the wings would enlarge
'n 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
'n haste did not understand:
The restricting cocoon 'n 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
'n we would never fly.. !