THE MOTH
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 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 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 bale 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 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
were a 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 are allowed to go through our
life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong
as what we could have been.
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