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A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day, a small opening appeared, he watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. It seemed to stop and appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could. So the man decided to help the butterfly by snipping off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

The butterfly emerged easily but it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. Tha man continued to watch the butterfly as he expected that the wings would enlarge and expand 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. The man in his kindness and hastiness did not understand that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. There is time when we need to stand alone to overcome the struggle. If we went through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be so strong as what we could have been.

And we would never fly.