本期小故事：破繭成蝶。一個結局令人惋惜卻令人深思的小故事！家長必看！
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 farther.
Then 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 this 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 would not be as strong as what we could have been. And we could never fly...
在線參考翻譯：
一個人發現了一隻蝴蝶的繭。有一天, 一個小的開口出現了;他坐了幾個小時, 看著蝴蝶掙扎著把它的身體從那個小洞裡擠過去。隨後, 它似乎停止了任何進展。它似乎已經用盡力氣了, 它不能再往外掙了。
隨後, 男子決定幫助蝴蝶, 於是他拿起一把剪刀, 剪掉了剩下的一點繭。蝴蝶就很容易破繭而出了。但它有一個腫脹的身體和小而萎縮的翅膀。
男子繼續觀察蝴蝶, 因為他預計, 過些時候, 翅膀會變大, 以便能夠支撐身體, 而身體會及時收縮。
兩者都沒發生!事實上, 蝴蝶的餘生都是帶著腫脹的身體和萎縮的翅膀四處爬行。它永遠無法飛行！
這個人在他的善良和匆忙中不明白的是, 蜷縮的繭力圖通過這個微小開口所需的鬥爭, 是大自然強迫最終變成蝴蝶所必須的——讓身體的液體進入翅膀-- 這樣才能使它的翅膀變硬而飛行。
有時候, 奮鬥正是我們生活中需要的。如果大自然讓我們在沒有任何障礙的情況下度過我們的生活, 它將使我們癱瘓。我們不會變成應有的強大。我們永遠飛不起來..。
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