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Roseate Emperor Moth
LIFE'S STRUGGLES
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 the 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.
The
moth seemed to be stuck and appeared to have stopped making progress.
It seemed as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go
no farther.
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 its body was swollen and small, its wings wrinkled and
shriveled. The man continued to watch the moth because he expected
that,
at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to and 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 small, swollen body and shriveled wings. It never
was able to fly.
The man in his kindness and haste did not understand that the struggle
required
for the moth to get through the tiny opening was necessary to force
fluid from the
body of the moth into its wings so that it would be ready for flight
upon achieving
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, and don't forget the power in the struggle.
~
Author Unknown ~
You
cannot protect anyone from themselves; you cannot protect
anyone from life.
You cannot spare a loved one the confrontation with their
own mortality,
their own stupidity, or their own emptiness.
Indeed, to take on the burden of sentry,
guarding another
person's
borders, is to interfere with that person's life lesson.
If we are the sum of everything that happens to us,
to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.
~
Dr. David Viscott ~
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