Welcome 2011

Finally, it's another new year... It's been a year since I last update on my blog... Lately, I've been lost interest on my hobby... I read less, I write less but it's all that I very love to do... Don't know why I'm loosing my interest... But, I will read and write more this year... And as the current result, I already finished reading a novel lend by my colleague to me... It's not my favorite author though... But since I started reading the novel, I start to enjoy it... But still, I have so many novels to finish... Hopefully, I will read a lot more before I started buying more, hehehe... Reading always been my way to enjoy my life... It started when I was being a librarian for three years at my primary school... Instead of arranging the books neatly on the shelves, I pick up some interesting title and start reading it and finished it if the book is not thick... But I do a good job arranging books... I really like to be surrounded by tons of books... The feeling to see all the books arranged neatly, the smell of the books... It's so nice... Untill now, I like to spend my time at bookstore... I can even stay in the bookstore for an hour, alone without any accompany... All my friends always like to spend thier time shopping at shoes store or clothes store, but I rather be in the bookstore... Never mind if nobody wants to accompany me... I like to be alone, surrounded by all the books... Before this, I'd try for the job in the bookstore... Don't know why they didn't call me back... Maybe they didn't see how serious I love books... Hehe, I better stop writing about this... Hope to update my blog regularly eventhough nobody's reading it...

Butterfly

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 gotten as far as it could and it could go no futher.

Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so 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, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shrivelled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand that the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were the 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 nature allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.