The Sad Tale Of The Butterfly

One bright morning a man found a silky cocoon of a butterfly in a garden. He was very eager to see what would happen to that cocoon. The next day the man found a small opening appearing from the cocoon. He sat there in sheer curiosity and started watching what happened next to the butterfly for several hours.

The butterfly was struggling to wrench its whole body through the little hole. Then suddenly man found that the butterfly stopped its movement and couldn’t go further.

Therefore, the kind man pitied the innocent butterfly and started to help it. He tried to free the butterfly from a tiny hole by cutting the cocoon with the help of scissors.

The butterfly emerged easily because the man helped it, but the butterfly had withered wings with a swollen body. The man was very happy as he helped the butterfly to come out of the tiny cocoon hole. The man continued to watch it.

The man was expecting that any minute the wings of the butterfly would begin to enlarge and it would start to fly but to the man’s surprise, nothing happened!

In fact, the beautiful and innocent butterfly was never able to fly with its beautiful wings.

The man was very kind but what he did not understand is, that by restricting the cocoon actually, he is disrupting the whole life cycle of the butterfly because the struggle to come out from the cocoon is necessary for the butterfly’s life.

It was a natural process of progress but the man interrupted the entire process thus the beautiful butterfly died because of the kind man’s foolishness.