I chose the name of my blog for a very specific reason. I love the symbolism and story of the butterfly. I will post below what I am talking about. I decided to start a blog because (feeling a little hypocritical) as a therapist I often suggest my clients journal. I NEVER journal, until now that is. Really if anyone ever reads my blogs or not is not important to me but more so I can get my feelings, challenges etc out and start working on real change! I signed up for slimgenics which I have started and quit since last september. My current weight is about 35 lbs more than what my Dr wants me to be so here we go. I am not sure what my problem has been with being so stuck and not loosing any weight but here we go! I hope if anyone is reading this that you enjoy the story of the butterfly!
The story of the butterfly
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 squeeze its body through the tiny hole.
Then it stopped, as if
it couldn't go further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors
and
snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon.
The butterfly emerged easily
but
it had a swollen body and shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch it,
expecting that any minute the wings would
enlarge
and expand enough to support the body,
Neither happened!
In
fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life
crawling around.
It was
never able to fly.
What the man in his kindness
and haste did not understand:
The
restricting cocoon and the struggle
required by the butterfly to get through
the opening
was a way of forcing the fluid from the body
into the wings so
that it would be ready
for flight once that was achieved.
Sometimes struggles are exactly
what we need in our lives.
Going
through life with no obstacles would cripple us.
We will not be as strong as
we could have been
and we would never fly.
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