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50 Famously Successful People Who Failed At First
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/
14th Nov 2009
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give". Winston Churchill.
21st Nov 2009
"A
man found a cocoon of a butterfly.
One
day a small opening appeared.
He
sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its
body through that little hole.
Then
it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as
it could, and it could go no further.
So
the man decided to help the butterfly.
He
took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The
butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shrivelled
wings.
The
man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment,
the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would
contract in time.
Neither
happened.
In
fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen
body and shrivelled wings. It never was 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 were its 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 lives. If we are allowed us to go
through our lives without any obstacles or struggles, it would cripple us.
We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly".