What Happens When You Rush/Push Things

One day, a man found a cocoon for a butterfly.
When a small opening appeared,
he sat and watched the butterfly
for several hours as it struggled
to force its body through the little hole.
Then it seemed to stop making any progress.
It appeared as if the butterfly
had gotten as far as it could
and could go no farther.
So the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors
and snipped the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly then emerged easily.
But something was strange.
The butterfly had a swollen body and shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly.
He expected that, at any moment,
the wings would enlarge and expand
to be able to support the body,
which he thought would contract in time.
Neither happened.
In fact, the butterfly spent
the rest of its life crawling around
with a swollen body and deformed wings.
It was never 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 small opening of the cocoon
are necessary to force the 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.
Going through all of our life
without any obstacles would cripple us.
We would not be as strong
as we could have been.
Not only that, we could never fly.