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 shriveled
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, leave no room for regrets.
Thanks to Bhagwati Prasad
