The Blue Butterfly

"The Blue Butterfly" (author unknown)

There was once a man whose wife died, so he lived with his two daughters, who were by nature very curious and intelligent. The girls always asked him many questions. Some he knew how to answer, others he didn't.

Their father wanted to give them the best education, so one day he sent his daughters to spend some time in the house of a wise old man.

He always knew how to answer the questions they asked.

At one point one of them brought a blue butterfly that she planned to use to deceive the sage.

- What will you do? her sister asked.

- I will hide the butterfly in my hands and I will ask the sage if it is alive or dead. If he says he's dead, I'll open my hands and let him fly. If he says he's alive, I'll squeeze him and crush him. And so any answer he will have, he will be wrong!

The two girls immediately went to the sage and found him meditating.

- I have a blue butterfly here. Tell me, sage, is he alive or dead?

Very calmly, the sage smiled and said to her:

- It depends on you, because it is in your hands!

So is our life, our present and our future. We don't have to blame anyone when something goes wrong: we are responsible for what we get or don't get.

Our life is in our hands, like the blue butterfly. It's up to us to choose what to do with it...

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