One never gets too old to learn. Every day provides us
with an opportunity to learn new lessons of life knowingly or unknowingly. All we
need is to look at it in a positive manner.
The purpose of each one of our lives is to develop/create
ourselves into a better person than yesterday. Life comes in with assorted difficulties,
but we need to remind ourselves that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds
are made under pressure; no man’s life is a cake walk. Learning from the experiences
that our life throws at us and inspiring ourselves from the lessons learnt
through that struggle will make us shine.
Every day is a struggle. Life is tossing out
difficulties and unexpected troubles at me. Contemplating about the pipeline of
issues, I came across an inspiring story which stimulated me. It gave me the
strength to snarl back at the troop of difficulties. I have decided to not writhe
in pain, but face the affliction with vigor. As the trouble will fall weak
because it not only gives me the power to be determined, but gives me an
opportunity to learn. So, I muster up all my strength for another opportunity to
learn, to improve myself. This gives me a chance to make myself prepared for
the future and learn from my mistakes. It rejuvenates me. Leonardo da Vinci rightly said, “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Here, I share with you the story so you look at your
difficulties as an opportunity to rise and shine in the future. Hope you shape
yourselves into a beautiful butterfly and spread the colours of your knowledge
and happiness to the needy and deprived.
Many
of us know that a beautiful and colourful butterfly comes from an unappealing
worm! Here is the story of a caterpillar that was never able to live a life
like a butterfly!
A little boy was playing outdoors and found a fascinating
caterpillar. He carefully picked it up and took it home to show his mother. He
asked his mother if he could keep it, and she said he could if he would take
good care of it.
The little boy got a large jar from his mother and put plants
to eat, and a stick to climb on, in the jar. Every day he watched the
caterpillar and brought it new plants to eat.
One day the
caterpillar climbed up the stick and started acting strangely. The boy
worriedly called his mother who came and understood that the caterpillar was
creating a cocoon. The mother explained to the boy how the caterpillar was
going to go through a metamorphosis and become a butterfly.
The little boy was
thrilled to hear about the changes his caterpillar would go through. He watched
every day, waiting for the butterfly to emerge. One day it happened, a small
hole appeared in the cocoon and the butterfly started to struggle to come out.
At first the boy was
excited, but soon he became concerned. The butterfly was struggling so hard to
get out! It looked like it couldn't break free! It looked desperate! It looked
like it was making no progress!
The boy was so
concerned he decided to help. He ran to get scissors, got it and then came
back. He snipped the cocoon to make the hole bigger and the butterfly quickly
emerged!
As the butterfly came
out the boy was surprised. It had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings. He
continued to watch the butterfly expecting that, at any moment, the wings would
dry out, enlarge and expand to support the swollen body. He knew that in time
the body would shrink and the butterfly's wings would expand.
But neither happened!
The butterfly spent
the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shrivelled wings.
It never could fly…
What the boy 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 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 life. If nature allowed us to go through our life
without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what
we could have been.
In fact, it is the struggle that causes you
to develop your ability to fly.
If we
don’t want to undergo any struggle, we won’t be able to fly!
I'm most
proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me in my life. He's given me
the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Rising
up and learning from the fall gives twice the strength to fight back. Hopefully,
I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve
in the next thing I do. One can lead a life with contentment by continuous
learning as life never stops teaching.
Lifeless
no grief mattered.
