Sunday, April 19, 2009

You need to reinvent the wheel all of your own

"Why don't you follow what i say because i know its of no use ?".
"Why did you do this when i told you it won't work ?".
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There was a huge butterfly commune, every one was quite happy with their life style of working hard and a contented life. Never a thought of what is life ? appeared in them, they were living life to the brim without ever thinking of how to live. They did not follow any protocol to living.

Out of nowhere thoughts of "what is life?", "How to live?" cropped up in one of the butterfly. Once these thoughts formulated it lost its natural state of mind and could not function as before. It went on a search to different masters to quench its thirst to solve his self posed question of understanding life and guidelines to lead a happy life.

The butterfly became very much intellectual and knew the science behind the formation of life. It studied the metamorphosis of butterfly from his masters and started preaching to his fellow beings on what is life and also made some guide lines to enjoy their life so that they can avoid pain.

Once this butterfly was sitting on a flower involved in this thoughts and suddenly heard some voices. It looked around and noticed that a baby moth was trying to come out of its cocoon. It was struggling a lot to break out of its own cocoon. Since the butterfly is very much intellectual and knew what stage it takes next, as it has learned from his masters hence it got a pair of scissors and cut open the cocoon thus making an easy outlet for the moth.

It wanted the moth not to struggle with pain in getting out of the cocoon but it did not realize that the very struggle to come out of its cocoon is very much needed for the moth in developing the wings to fly. The moth came out of the cocoon and died since it was crippled.

2 comments:

Raghu said...

Amazing post. well, everyone has to go through the realities of life. There are no shortcuts to learning. Many of those will still want be in the cocoon, even though they have wings, because they feel that's life ... then, so be it.

Unknown said...

Ravi,
Very nice post!

Its about enjoying the journey, its not only about the destination - is what i strongly believe.

Also, saw in an ad where Aamir Khan says 'Why learn from other's mistakes? Come on, make your own mistakes in life and learn from them'

cheers...
koshy