Less is More


LESS IS MORE.

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared and he sat and watched for several hours as it 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 and it could go no further.

 

The man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and sniped off the remaining bit of cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings.

 

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able t 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 shrivelled wings. It was never able to fly.

 

What he man in his kindness and haste did not understand was 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 the wings so that it would b e ready for the flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

 

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If nature allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we might have been.

 

And we could never fly.

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