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Birth Date: Mon, Dec 18 1961

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I wondered why... (and a story)

 

 

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  Spiritualjaye

Mon, Aug 20 12:00 AM

I wondered why... (and a story)

 

I seemed to have problems with my toolbox this weekend... it was saying it was on day 15 but showing me day 14, which was frustrating as i wanted to get on with it... then i remembered that everything happened for a reason and if TTL was throwing a spanner in the works and stopping me moving forward there must be a reason...

 

I figured that maybe i was rushing the program for the wrong reasons... i still worry too much about how i am viewed and perceived as i feel like i have always been judged... often wrongly.. Frown

 

I decided to take a breather and make sure i was implementing each step properly before moving forward and told myself not to worry about what other people thought ... then tonight i have just found a story in my email folders that i had forgotten about...

 

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole at the end.

 

Eventually, the butterfly stopped making progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. The man decided to help the butterfly,

so 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, shriveled 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 shriveled 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 nature's 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 life. If nature allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us.

 

We will all blossom into beautiful butterflys, if we find the strength within to overcome our obstacles and do it in our own time.

 

I still have a lot to contend with and i know that if i rush Tools, i won't implement it properly... implementation is far more important than speed... so i am going to conquer another lesson and stop worrying about having to do it every day and stop worrying about what anyone else may or may not think..

 

I've been here 23 days... i've only done 15 days but ... wow... what a difference those 15 days have made to me... I can't wait to see the changes the next 15 days bring.. Laughing

 

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