I found this little
guy crawling up my pant leg. It was a reminder that I'm a
caterpillar at the moment too...going though an uncomfortable situation that's
necessary for my growth...an opportunity to learn something new...but in learning something new, I have to go through the process which includes pain, self-awareness,
more pain, then eventually transformation. For right now, I'm still a
caterpillar.
*****
Most of us know the story
about the well-meaning man who found a cocoon of a butterfly and after watching
it struggle for awhile, decided to help it along by snipping the cocoon open.
The butterfly then emerged, but it's wings were shriveled. The butterfly was
never 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 butterfly to get through the tiny opening was forcing
fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready
for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are
exactly what we need in our lives. If we went through our lives without any
obstacles, it would cripple us.
We would not be as strong
as what we could have been.
We could never
fly!
*****
FYI- I wrote this last year. I wanted to share it again!!!
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable.
In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change,
lies our happiness and
freedom."
—Buddha
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have
already mastered,
you will never grow."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am always changing, evolving, growing.
For this, I am grateful."
