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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 41 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
There is a famous parable about a child who saw a caterpillar. When the caterpillar was there on the branch, it was struggling to get out of its cocoon. So the boy, being a young child, took pity on the caterpillar and cut open the cocoon to allow the caterpillar out. When the caterpillar turned out to be a butterfly, it couldn’t fly.
You see, although the boy thought he was doing the caterpillar a favor, in reality, he was crippling it. The caterpillar needed to struggle out of its own cocoon in order to develop the right muscles to be able to fly later and be a free, beautiful butterfly.
This parable is so important to understand because the same is true with people in life. If we truly want to accomplish something which we have to struggle and work for, and we expect to grow without working or struggling, we are just crippling ourselves and even the abilities to grow in all aspects of life. The struggle is part of the growth, and the success is the answer to that growth through the struggle. So, it is good to struggle. It is worth to struggle. It is necessary to struggle.
Now, we don’t wish for trouble. We don’t even wish for difficulty. We just wish we have the skill, the ability, the thought, the ambition, and certainly the will to overcome it. That’s what life is all about. The same is true when we teach our own children or friend, that we speak to. Help them develop their own muscles so they can fly later. Do not cut open the cocoon because later on, they wouldn’t be able to fly. That’s not what you want. That’s not what we expect, and that’s not the result that we need.
We need to be able to help ourselves and anyone who comes to us; in our family or friends, help them see that struggle is necessary so that they can become better, stronger, wiser, and succeed. That’s what life is all about. Struggling itself is part of the results, and I wish for you to find all the proper measures to take when these show up.
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