Re: Re: Looking for old story

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YES IT IS!!!!

Thank you!!!

[Guest guest]

WOW

I've never read that story before. Yes, it is a good one!

Thank you!

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[ ] Re: Looking for old story

I always liked this one too -about the butterfly and how struggle is good -so

many lessons in this story too.

Once a little boy was playing outdoors and found a fascinating caterpillar. He

carefully picked it up and took it home to show his mother. He asked his mother

if he could keep it, and she said he could if he would take good care of it.

The little boy got a large jar from his mother and put plants to eat, and a

stick to climb on, in the jar. Every day he watched the caterpillar and brought

it new plants to eat.

One day the caterpillar climbed up the stick and started acting strangely. The

boy worriedly called his mother who came and understood that the caterpillar was

creating a cocoon. The mother explained to the boy how the caterpillar was going

to go through a metamorphosis and become a butterfly.

The little boy was thrilled to hear about the changes his caterpillar would go

through. He watched every day, waiting for the butterfly to emerge. One day it

happened, a small hole appeared in the cocoon and the butterfly started to

struggle to come out.

At first the boy was excited, but soon he became concerned. The butterfly was

struggling so hard to get out! It looked like it couldn't break free! It looked

desperate! It looked like it was making no progress!

The boy was so concerned he decided to help. He ran to get scissors, and then

walked back (because he had learned not to run with scissors…). He snipped the

cocoon to make the hole bigger and the butterfly quickly emerged!

As the butterfly came out the boy was surprised. It had a swollen body and

small, shriveled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly expecting that, at

any moment, the wings would dry out, enlarge and expand to support the swollen

body. He knew that in time the body would shrink and the butterfly's wings would

expand.

But neither happened!

The butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and

shriveled wings.

It never was able to fly…

As the boy tried to figure out what had gone wrong his mother took him to talk

to a scientist from a local college. He learned that the butterfly was SUPPOSED

to struggle. In fact, the butterfly's struggle to push its way through the tiny

opening of the cocoon pushes the fluid out of its body and into its wings.

Without the struggle, the butterfly would never, ever fly. The boy's good

intentions hurt the butterfly.

As you go through school, and life, keep in mind that struggling is an important

part of any growth experience. In fact, it is the struggle that causes you to

develop your ability to fly.

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[ ] Re: Looking for old story

I always liked this one too -about the butterfly and how struggle is good -so

many lessons in this story too.

Once a little boy was playing outdoors and found a fascinating caterpillar. He

carefully picked it up and took it home to show his mother. He asked his mother

if he could keep it, and she said he could if he would take good care of it.

The little boy got a large jar from his mother and put plants to eat, and a

stick to climb on, in the jar. Every day he watched the caterpillar and brought

it new plants to eat.

One day the caterpillar climbed up the stick and started acting strangely. The

boy worriedly called his mother who came and understood that the caterpillar was

creating a cocoon. The mother explained to the boy how the caterpillar was going

to go through a metamorphosis and become a butterfly.

The little boy was thrilled to hear about the changes his caterpillar would go

through. He watched every day, waiting for the butterfly to emerge. One day it

happened, a small hole appeared in the cocoon and the butterfly started to

struggle to come out.

At first the boy was excited, but soon he became concerned. The butterfly was

struggling so hard to get out! It looked like it couldn't break free! It looked

desperate! It looked like it was making no progress!

The boy was so concerned he decided to help. He ran to get scissors, and then

walked back (because he had learned not to run with scissors...). He snipped the

cocoon to make the hole bigger and the butterfly quickly emerged!

As the butterfly came out the boy was surprised. It had a swollen body and

small, shriveled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly expecting that, at

any moment, the wings would dry out, enlarge and expand to support the swollen

body. He knew that in time the body would shrink and the butterfly's wings would

expand.

But neither happened!

The butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and

shriveled wings.

It never was able to fly...

As the boy tried to figure out what had gone wrong his mother took him to talk

to a scientist from a local college. He learned that the butterfly was SUPPOSED

to struggle. In fact, the butterfly's struggle to push its way through the tiny

opening of the cocoon pushes the fluid out of its body and into its wings.

Without the struggle, the butterfly would never, ever fly. The boy's good

intentions hurt the butterfly.

As you go through school, and life, keep in mind that struggling is an important

part of any growth experience. In fact, it is the struggle that causes you to

develop your ability to fly.

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