SSABlog#84

Hello Michelle Sir,

I am suguna from India studying M.C.A in Koneru Laksmaiah College of

Engineering VJA. Sir I am one of your group member. Thank you sir for doing good things. I really like your inspiring and motivate stories and the other Categories too.

Michelle Sir, even I want to send good motivating stories. And now I am sending a HTML file which I had created and it contains a story about the importance of the “struggle”. Actually the story is written by someone else. I don’t know who is the author. I read it in a newspaper article.

I took the story and made a HTML file. The story is really a good one, and I hope my images in the file may also add color to the file.

Sir I hope u like this story.

Thank you once again Sir for such a wonderful site.

Suguna

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Dear Suguna;

Thanks so much for this wonderful story, I'm sure our other readers will enjoy it themselves.
While I can get the whole page to work well on my puter, not all of the graphics work from
this site. I did the best I could on the graphics, but the story is the important part anyway.

It seems that English may not be your native language. Let me clarify, I am female.
"Sir" is an address for a male. "Madam or Ma'am" is used for a female. Either way, it
is wonderful for you to reach out to others.

Best, Michelle

STRUGGLE
Hai friends, life's many struggles. And every where we turn, we meet obstacles. And thus life seems pretty unfair to us. But actually life is a journey to free our souls from our Self, and to become a master of life. Master of life doesn't mean master over others, but a master of yourself --and this self-mastery is reflected in your every gesture and your every word.
The Old Man and the Butterfly Many of us already heard the story of The Oldman and the Butterfly. My question is: Do we really learn something from this beautiful story? How does it reflect to our own life? I pasted this story and created html file to share this with you. We may find that the story do help us understand our life learning lessons. Here is the story: Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything animals, spiders, insects ... One day while walking through the woods the nice old man found a cocoon. Feeling lonely he decided to take the cocoon home to watch its beautiful transformation from a funny little cocoon to a beautiful butterfly. He gently placed the cocoon on his kitchen table, and watched over it for days. Suddenly on the seventh day there appeared a tiny opening and found that the cocoon started to move. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body out through the little hole. The old man felt sorry for the little butterfly inside the cocoon. He watched it struggle and struggle and struggle! Finally the old man feeling so sorry for the cocooned butterfly and decided to help it. He took a pair of scissors and cut a portion of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged out easily. But it had a swollen body and a pair of shrivelled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that at any moment the wings would enlarge and it would be able to fly. It did not happen. It entered into a completely motionless state. The old man did not know what to think. Had he accidentally killed the little butterfly? No, its still moving a little bit.! Maybe its sick! He did so, and placed a drop of honey on it to seal the cocoon, leaving the butterfly to nestle in its natural state. Well the next day he noticed that the cocoon was moving again. Wow, he said! It moved and moved and struggled and struggled. Finally the butterfly broke free from its cocoon and stretched its wings out far and wide. Its beautiful wings were filled with wonderful colors! It looked around and took off! It was flying! Its so beautiful! The old man was jumping with joy! Wow! Go Baby, Go! And that wonderful butterfly did that just that, it flew and flew till it was almost out of the old mans sight. What a joy, he exclaimed! But then he started to think. What did I do wrong by trying to help that beautiful little butterfly out at first? The old man went into town. Found the library, and read every book he could on butterflies and cocoons. Finally the answer appeared. It was the struggle of getting out of the cocoon that gave it the strength to survive and fly. That's just what they are designed to overcome in order to be strong and beautiful. Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been. And we could never fly................. Struggles are needed so that we can emerge ready to fly. STRUGGLE This is the only mantra that makes us as masters.

STRUGGLE

Hai friends, life's many struggles. And every where we turn, we meet obstacles. And thus life seems pretty unfair to us. But actually life is a journey to free our souls from our Self, and to become a master of life. Master of life doesn't mean master over others, but a master of yourself --and this self-mastery is reflected in your every gesture and your every word.

The Old Man and the Butterfly

Many of us already heard the story of The Oldman and the Butterfly. My question is: Do we really learn something from this beautiful story?
      How does it reflect to our own life? I pasted this story and created html file to share this with you. We may find that the story do help us understand our life learning lessons. Here is the story:

        Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything animals, spiders, insects ... One day while walking through the woods the nice old man found a cocoon.

         Feeling lonely he decided to take the cocoon home to watch its beautiful transformation from a funny little cocoon to a beautiful butterfly. He gently placed the cocoon on his kitchen table, and watched over it for days.

         Suddenly on the seventh day there appeared a tiny opening and found that the cocoon started to move. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body out through the little hole.

        The old man felt sorry for the little butterfly inside the cocoon. He watched it struggle and struggle and struggle! Finally the old man feeling so sorry for the cocooned butterfly and decided to help it. He took a pair of scissors and cut a portion of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged out easily.

         But it had a swollen body and a pair of shrivelled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that at any moment the wings would enlarge and it would be able to fly. It did not happen. It entered into a completely motionless state.

         The old man did not know what to think. Had he accidentally killed the little butterfly? No, its still moving a little bit.! Maybe its sick! He did so, and placed a drop of honey on it to seal the cocoon, leaving the butterfly to nestle in its natural state.

         Well the next day he noticed that the cocoon was moving again. Wow, he said! It moved and moved and struggled and struggled. Finally the butterfly broke free from its cocoon and stretched its wings out far and wide.

         Its beautiful wings were filled with wonderful colors! It looked around and took off! It was flying! Its so beautiful! The old man was jumping with joy! Wow! Go Baby, Go! And that wonderful butterfly did that just that, it flew and flew till it was almost out of the old mans sight.

         What a joy, he exclaimed! But then he started to think. What did I do wrong by trying to help that beautiful little butterfly out at first? The old man went into town. Found the library, and read every book he could on butterflies and cocoons. Finally the answer appeared.

It was the struggle of getting out of the cocoon that gave it the strength to survive and fly. That's just what they are designed to overcome in order to be strong and beautiful.


Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been. And we could never fly.................
                     Struggles are needed so that we can emerge ready to fly.                                     STRUGGLE
This is the only mantra that makes us as masters.