The Butterfly and the Cocoon (Struggles)

One day, a man found a butterfly’s cocoon.

He watched it closely. After some time, a small hole appeared. The butterfly was trying to come out. The man sat there for hours, watching it struggle to get through the tiny opening.

Then it stopped. It looked like the butterfly couldn’t go any further.

Feeling sorry for it, the man decided to help. He took scissors and carefully cut the rest of the cocoon so the butterfly could come out easily.

And it did. But its body was swollen and its wings were small and weak.

The man waited, hoping the wings would grow and the butterfly would fly. But it never did. The butterfly spent its whole life crawling around. It could never fly.

What the man didn’t realize was this: the butterfly needed the struggle to get through the cocoon. It was nature’s way of pushing fluid from its body into its wings. Without the hard work, the butterfly could never grow strong enough to fly.

Moral:
Struggles help us grow stronger. If we avoid all challenges or always rely on others, we miss the chance to become better and stronger ourselves.

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