The Cocoon and the butterfly - Short Motivational Stories
The Cocoon and the butterfly
Once upon a time a little girl lived with her mother.
One day, while playing in her garden, she saw something hanging from the branch of a bush.
On inquiring her mother told her that it was a cocoon of a butterfly and soon a butterfly will hatch from it.
The little girl was very excited to see the beautiful butterfly.
One day, a small opening appeared in the cocoon.
She sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole.
Until it suddenly stopped making any progress and looked like it was stuck.
So, she decided to help the butterfly by snipping off the remaining bit of the cocoon using scissors.
The butterfly then emerged easily although it had a swollen body and small shriveled wings.
The girl was happy as she thought she had done the butterfly a favor.
She sat there waiting and waiting to see the butterfly flying. But that did not happen.
Since, the butterfly's wings were too weak to support its body for flying.
Alas, The butterfly spent the rest of its life unable to fly crawling around with tiny wings and a large body.
Despite the girls good intentions, she didn’t understand that the restricting cocoon and the struggle needed by the butterfly to get itself through the small opening.
Were natures way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings.
To prepare it for flying once it was out of the cocoon.
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