The problems we overcome allow us to experience the richness of life and its accompanying joy. Adversity adds spice to life and makes a wonderful teacher. In short, Adversity is a Teacher !
Before emerging from its cocoon, the butterfly has a fat body and folded, limp wings. It is hardly an image of strength and beauty. It cannot free itself from the cocoon without a long struggle. As it pushes, strains, and convulses, liquid from its body is forced into the veins of its wings. Bit by bit the wings extend and grow stronger. Bit by bit an increasing amount of pressure is placed against the walls of the chrysalis. At last, a slim Monarch with robust wings breaks free.
We are butterfly. Our cocoon is our comfort zone. Do you expect to break free without a struggle? Do you expect to fly before extending and strengthening your wings? Can you see how the obstacles we face are not our enemies but our friends? In short, a life without difficulties is a classroom without lessons.
Robert Fulghum has said it wisely – “If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience”.
It is our attitude that determines whether we benefit from misfortune. The same furnace that melts gold also hardens clay. Similarly, those who willingly allow themselves to be forged, hammered, and shaped by adversity, endlessly grow into a better person, endlessly bloom into a flower to bright to behold.
Make it a great week ahead !
Warm Regard, Sara Pandian
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