Saturday, 4 August 2012

Let the nature bloom you with soft Grace!

I read this short story about a boy who tried helping a butterfly coming out of her cocoon :

There was this bouncing young boy who lived in a country side and was a happy kid and a helpful one- full of love and enthusiasm!

There was a mulberry tree next to his home and he would enjoy playing there and go about chasing butterflies. He was enomoured by the beauty of the butterflies around the garden for their exqsite colors and the way they went from one flower to another in search of Nectar. It fainted him no end and loved butterflies with all his heart.

He was equally fascinated with caterpillars on the trees and how they voraciously ate the leaves and wove  a cocoon around them and one day they would fly out of the cocoons into those beautiful butterflies he loved to chase!

It was one of those serene mornings, this boy went out to his favorite playing area and while playing he noticed a cocoon slowly moving back and forth in a breach of the tree. He got curious and went near the branch started gazing with all his curiosity... he slowly noticed that that  the mouth of the cocoon was being chewed and slowly being opened by its owner .. The caterpillar!

After a a while he saw the cocoon open a little and a small head poked out of it.. The caterpillar had turned into a butterfly! He was very happy ..happy to see this most beautiful sight. He waited for sometime and there was no further movement in the cocoon and yet he waited still gazing at it with amazement. .....

After a while the tiny head peeping out started moving and it progressed  a little more in opening the mouth of the cocoon..  the young boy continued to watch .. the process of opening to continue... After watching this process for some time and the moth inside working its way out several times... The  boy took pity on the moth and he slowly but carefully started tearing the mouth of the cocoon and when he opened it sufficiently wide enough ... The moth fell out of the cocoon and tried to flip its wings... tried again but failed and continued trying for sometime but didn't succeed in opening its wings and fly.. 

Slowly the moth gave up its attempt to fly and lay there on the ground for some time .. Thereafter the moth could only hop around and it never turned into a butterfly .. 

It was a simple natural process for the moth to come out of the cocoon by natures graceful work on the cocoon and fly out as a very beautiful butterfly.. but even the most well intended and most sympathetic act of tearing the cocoon to help the moth to come out early actually maimed the moth from transforming it from a caterpillar to butterfly!

There is a very smile lesson in this story.... The nature will graceful work on you to open and bloom... to open and let you free to fly like a beautiful butterfly... Trust the nature and Let the nature work on you gracefully and you will bloom.. bloom and fly!

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