The Butterfly

Whenever I feel discouraged about life and wanted to find the easy way out, I realized that I have just wasted another moment of my life. Every time we sit there and try to figure out how to complete tasks the easy way, we just wasted time sitting there thinking while we could have just stood up and do something. In a way, the harder the task, the more personal satisfaction accumulates and the higher our self-esteem rises. I took this story from http://www.indianchild.com.

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 force its 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 further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly. 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, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly 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 butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

Clearly, this kind action became an unintentional disadvantage to the butterfly. The man wanted to help ease the effort for the metamorphosis of the butterfly, but instead, had caused an impaired growth in the formation of the butterfly. The act of struggling to emerge from a cocoon is nature's testament to allow the fluid from the butterfly's abdomen to be released into the veins inside its wings. That way the wings would be fully developed according to butterflyschool.org.

In life, we encounter hardship and obstacles that might seem to be hard to overcome. However, without these hardships and obstacles, we would not be fully developed physically and mentally. Whether it is a tragic pain, a devastating situation, or a stressful environment, in the end, the experience will allow us to come out stronger than we have entered. It's all in how we cope with the situation.

Don't let others pave the way for you and just follow, you won't be be prepared enough to make it out with a newborn strength. It's just like trying to obtain good grades in school or being promoted at work, you can cheat your way through it, but in the end, you will not gain the experience and the necessary requirements to get through everything afterwards. Guide your own path, hammer and forge it into the way you want it to be, build your own monument. You can ask for help, by all means, do ask for help, but realize what kind of help would be beneficial. There will be people who would be nice enough just to give you all the answers and lay down the foundation so that you will get the result, however, that is the worse kind of help out there you can find. If everything is already laid out for you, then what is the point of working toward your goal? Is it really your own success or is it the success of another? Build your own monument and have someone build it with you instead of having someone build it for you.

Fight toward your goal! Only those who succeeds are motivated enough to continue to dream big. If Archimedes thought it was impossible to determine if the king's crown was made out of real gold or not, then there would be no law stating that the weight of the crown divided by the volume of water is equal to the density of the material.Eureka!