The Butterfly Struggle and You

Written by Katrina van Oudheusden on Mar 17, 2010 11:24 am

Are you struggling with your business? This is going to hit home for a lot of you.

Life is about struggles and when we go through them it makes us stronger and better. In today's society where everyone is looking for a hand out this story will point out that you don't need the hand out if you really want to fly. The struggle is what makes life worth living. Cheers to your business struggle, may it give you wings to fly!

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.

So have a nice day and struggle a little.

Katrina van Oudheusden

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