One day, a small opening opened on a cocoon; a man sat and watched for the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to free its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gone as far as it could and it could not go any further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly; he took a pair of scissors and opened the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a withered body. It was tiny and had shrivelled wings.


The man continued to watch because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would open, enlarge and expand, to be able to support the butterfly's body, and become firm. Neither happened; in fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a withered body and shrivelled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and goodwill did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggling required for the butterfly to emerge through the tiny opening was 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 in freeing itself from the cocoon.


Similarly, I guess struggles we face in life are there for a reason too. Let us keep working hard at it, and one day, may we emerge like a healthy and beautiful butterfly! No one said life was always going to be easy and smooth-sailing, but the struggles we go through have meaning too, and are there to help us grow. Life is beautiful, treasure life! Even the tough times where it is just so easy to grow weary.





Justin sent an email in an attempt to find donors for B blood; a 5 year old Singaporean boy Berney needs a transfusion fast and the blood bank is empty of the rare B blood. At least 10 donors are needed and even with 10, their blood need to be screened to be healthy to enable transfusion. Attached to the email is this story which I found to be relevant to me. Oh man, the sudden urge to read Justin's email sent months ago in April and also this story at this ungodly hour must be some kind of God's message for me to choose to struggle with my revision cos now I lack the motivation to study and I'm weary of it all.

Maybe Justin's been praying that I'll remember his birthday and his prayer was answered. Yes, July 2nd. I will remember to sms you, old friend. Oh myy, I miss smsing you and receiving your smses at 4am when your biological clock wakes you up. And those times when you used your super pro (to the swakoo me at that time) laptop with the magic pen to write on the screen, those Chemistry balancing of equations which I super sucked in. Don't be too AA in school though, heard comments about you through my friends (: Study hard for MYEs, I still have high hopes in you and hope you achieve your dream, though it seems impossible cos it's such a noble aspiration but there's always hope :)

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