Once a man saw a small opening appeared on the cocoon of a butterfly. 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 made as far as it could and it could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so 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, shrivelled wings. The man had thought to help it and expected to be everything good but the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shrivelled wings. It could never fly. Actually, he benignly opened the path of progress, but restricted Nature’s process for the cocoon to struggle.
Moral : Struggle nurtures our efficiency and potentials.
