Q: Will you retrieve a flower on a dangerous cliff if I request, even if you know that you may fall to death?
A: OF course not because I need my hands to help you with your researching and typing. I need my legs to help to retrieve the stuffs when you forget to bring them. I need my eyes to help you to see whenever you lost your directions in life I need my ears to listen to your complaints whenever you need someone to listen. Unless there is someone who love you more than I did, I will defintely retrieve the flower you want. If you still need me, I will be waiting outside the door, buying you your favourite ice tea."
--xiaoxin--
Friday, March 02, 2007
& put your footprints on // 8:35 PM
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 further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. 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 God'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.
In life, sometimes we are actually better off on our own. By re-appearing in someone else' life even with good intentions may in fact do him more harm than good. There is this small chance that an act of kindness because of wrong place,wrong time resulting in a big big misunderstanding between both parties. A misunderstanding enough to make him lose himself for days. He no longer enjoy what he used to. He loses his temper much more easily. He cant seem to concentrate on anything. At last, He feels that losing himself sucks and it is hurting everyone around him. Therefore, he swear that he will never allow himself to be stuck in such situation ever again.
