A man found a cocoon of a butterfly in his garden, he began to watch it carefully everyday. One day he saw that a small opening is appearing in the cocoon. He stand beside the cocoon and watched the butterfly for many hours as it was trying to come out from that little hole. It struggled hard but could not get out and for some time looked like it was stuck.
Therefore the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a scissor and cut the little hole bigger. The butterfly then came out easily with a small and swollen body, shriveled wings.
The man wait for hours to enlarge the wings of the butterfly to support it to fly. But that was never happened. The butterfly could never fly and have to crawl around for the rest of it’s life with tiny wings and a swollen body.
Though the man has a kind heart, he did not understand that he had restricted the struggle needed by the butterfly to get itself out through the small hole is the natural way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings to prepare itself for flying when it come out from the cocoon.
Moral of the story: No matter how much we fail in life, we have to carry on our struggles by ourselves. Because our struggles are the way of learning things needed for us in our life and making us stronger. If we take help from others than we may be out from that particular struggle, but life is full of struggles, and other struggles will shatter us when we will be unable to do it by ourselves.
Napoleon was involved in conversation with a colonel of a Hungarian battalion who had been taken prisoner in Italy. The colonel mentioned that he had fought in the army of Maria Theresa.
“You must have a few years under your belt!” exclaimed Napoleon. “I’m sure I have lived sixty or seventy years,” replied the colonel. “You mean to say ,” Napoleon continued, “you have not kept track of the years you have lived?”
To that the colonel promptly replied, “sir, I always count my money, my shirts, and my horses- but as for my years, I know nobody who wants to steal them, and I surely never lose them.”
A little girl have two mangoes in her both hands. She was about to take a bite from a mango when her mother came and asked her, ” would you give a mango to your mommy swetie”?
Mommy had a pleasant smile on her face as she liked mango very much.
But at the meantime the girl took a bite from a mango and then also from the other one. By looking this mother’s smile froze in her face. She tried hard to not show her disappointment.
Suddenly the girl gave a mango to her mom and said , “this is the sweeter one”.
Mom was stunned.
So, we should not judge others without listening to them or knowing them completely. We should give them time to explain about their particular work and behavior.
`A teacher in lower grade gave her students to write an essay about a wish which they will ask to God. And to write why they have made the wish.
When the teacher was checking the essays and marking them then her eyes filled with tears. When her husband was passing by then saw her crying. He asked why she was crying. Then she read him an essay written by a boy.
Boy: God, please make me a TV set. I just want to draw attention towards me.
When my daddy come to home from the office then he sit beside the TV even if he is tired. Just want to be with him, want attention to be given. I want to be the games, news he watches in the TV. I want to be watched by my mom when she is sad and merry.
I want that my brothers and sisters fight over me to watch their favorite cartoons.
God, please let me draw attention of all towards me because no one spend time with me and cares about me. Let me be center of all of my house. So, make me a TV set.
What a poor fellow! Husband exclaimed.
This essay is written by our son. The teacher replied.
The idea of this novel came to give year old destitute mother while waiting four hours during a train delay from Manchester to London.
She had to live on welfare with her baby daughter. She had no job, her Portuguese husband threw her out of their apartment. She felt many failures and even contemplated suicide.
But she never left writing. She continued writing, often in cafes after her daughter fell asleep.
She is Joanne or J. K. Rowling. After years of writing manuscripts, numbers of rejections she was able to publish her first book Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone”.
And rest is history.
According to Guinness world records, Harry Potter series has sold over 400 million copies worldwide. J. K. Rowling became the first billion dollar authorin the history of writing.
There was a Merry cricket. He liked to sing and dance. He danced and sang all day hoping grass to leaves.
It was the spring season. Therefore there was no lack of food. He enjoyed the life and became merrier. Didn’t save a little food for the winter.
When winter came all the food was gone. Leaves and grasses are no where to be found. He was hungry and weak. So, be went to the ant colony. And asked them some food. He told “I will return you when spring come”.
Ant told him, ” You have sang and danced the whole spring without gathering anything to your rainy days. So go and dance out the winter”. They turned him.
The cricket died in hunger and cold.
Moral of the story: Think and act for the future while there is time.
He wrote himself check for ten million dollars, for “Acting services rendered,” and dated it for Thanksgiving 1995, giving himself ten years to make it happen. He always kept it in his wallet, to remind him and determined that he would be able to cash it.
Be is the youngest of four children, whose father was a accountant. But after his father lost his job they had to even live in a Volkswagen bus.
He was a comedian from his childhood. He left Canada, his home country to Los Angeles, California, US to pursue his dream of becoming a successful comedian. He had to work without any payment for months. But he never lost his heart and toll day and night.
Slowly he came to notice of Hollywood and his career began to thrive. He is none other than Jim Carrey, the comedian. He became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, as well as the first actor in history of cinema to receive $20 million for a movie, which Jim was paid for his role in The Cable Guy(1996).
At his father’s funeral in 1994, Jim placed the check he wrote to himself into his father’s casket, signifying the fulfillment of both of their dreams.
