the beginning - continues

This is another true story. Again, my "writers block" has not yet cleared. so i am writing what i have heard from someone else.

An old man was traveling with his 25 year old son in a train

As train started moving, the young man was filled with a lot of joy and curiosity at the sights outside the train.
He was sitting next to the window.
He put his hand outside the window and felt the passing air. He shouted, "Papa see all trees are going behind".
Old man smiled admiringly at his son's feelings.
Beside the young man a couple was sitting and listening to the conversation between father and son.
They were a little awkward with the attitude of the 25 year old man behaving like a small child.
Suddenly the young man shouted again, "Papa see the pond and animals. See how the clouds are moving along with the train".
The couple watching the young man was getting more and more uncomfortable at the young mans behavior, but it had no effect on either the father or the son.
Suddenly, it started raining and rain drops fall on the young man's hand.
the young man is overjoyed and he shouts again, "Papa, see it's raining, see the raindrops on my hands papa".
the couple couldn't help themselves and ask the old man.
"it seems that your son is not well. Why don't you have your son treated?"
The father said,
" Yes, We are coming from the hospital. My son was born blind. due to the new technologies and breakthroughs, it is just today that my son got his eye sight. He is excited as he is seeing things for the first time in his life".

isn't it true that we come to conclusions without having any knowledge about things? that is human nature, isn't it?

the beginning

This is the first time i am writing anything anywhere, other than what i used to write in school and college (Studies) and what I write at work now. Could not think of anything to write (writers block, maybe). I was just going through my mails when i saw a really beautiful and touching story. So I thought, why not make a start with the story?? Here is to a new beginning!!

A man found a cocoon for 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 the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly.

He took a pair of scissors and snipped the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. Something was strange. The butterfly had a swollen body and shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected 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 deformed wings. It was never 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 small opening of the cocoon are God`s (or Nature'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. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life.

If we were to go through all our life without any obstacles, that would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Not only that, we could never fly. Obstacles are a way of making us stronger!!