Jeyaganesh's Blog

Here is a story that you may have heard it many times before. But hearing it at right time and right context is something different. This is a mail forwarded by my friend “Srinivasa Raghavan”. Thanks to him. He may sent it to me causally like many other forward mails, but it affected me. So I thought it is worth publishing it here.

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 had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly. 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 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 shriveled wings. It never was 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 tiny opening were 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 its freedom from the cocoon.

Moral: Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!

Sure we must save our tigers. but how? Hats off to Aircel for this initiative. Will this message reach the poachers effectively. Are these poachers not aware of this dwindling numbers?. Of Course they do and they just don’t care.

In two ways tiger’s life is endangered,

1. Poaching
2. Killing for safety

For first case, we can fight only with law. Laws should be stringent to fight against tiger poaching. Forest department officials should take the necessary steps. But “What to do if safety fencing itself eats the plants”

For second case, surely awareness is necessary but not for people sitting before computers, living at cities and apartments where no tiger is living and think they saved the tiger species by just enrolling in the website. Awareness should be given to village peoples living nearby forest areas about procedures to follow if encountered a tiger.

what wild animals do when we keep on occupying their living space?

Yesterday I went to see this movie. Came out awestruck. Though we have seen movies like this and such effects in many hollywood movies, this is different. Plot is very close to us. Good try by Selvaraghavan. He got 80% success in it. Maybe remaining 20% was left because of financial crisis they experienced while finishing the movie. Before seeing this movie I too thought this is going to be a pure copy of multiple hollywood movies, influenced by some people.

Indians has special mentality, they will appreciate the work done by outsiders, turn down our own people’s. This is kind of movie which we have to embrace and encourage. This is real entertainment.

Big comedy was in last week’s SUN TV Top 10 movies, Aayirathil Oruvan was in 3rd place and Vettaikaran was in 1st people. Can’t digest such ratings. How the hell, on what basis they are rating the movies.

Must watch movie, on theatre.