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"Emperor
Moth" St. Remy, 1889 - Vincent Van Gogh
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. The
moth seemed to be stuck and appeared to have stopped making progress.
It seemed
as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.
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 its body was swollen and small, its wings wrinkled and
shriveled. The
man continued to watch the moth because he expected that,
at any moment, the
wings would enlarge and expand to and 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 small, swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.
The man in his kindness and haste did not understand that the struggle required
for the moth to get through the tiny opening was necessary to force fluid from
the
body of the moth into its wings so that it would be ready for flight upon
achieving
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, and don't forget the power in the struggle. ~
Author Unknown ~
You
cannot protect anyone from themselves; you cannot protect anyone from life.
You cannot spare a loved one the confrontation with their own mortality,
their
own stupidity or their own emptiness.
Indeed, to take on the burden of sentry, guarding another person's
borders,
is to interfere with that person's life lesson.
If we are the sum of everything
that happens to us,
to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth. ~
Dr. David Viscott ~
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