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.

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 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 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 swollen body
and shriveled 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 was the 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 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.