Growth.....

My Thought for this Day...........I think that it is quite possible to love someone so much that you truly hold them a prisoner in your life. You clip their wings, you bar their door to expansion, you stymy their growth. This, I'm sure can and is done intentionally, as well as unintentionally. It is said that you can never love someone too much. But in fact, I think you can. And with that love your fears of their stumbles, and hurts and failures, forces you to tether them to you so tightly that you take each step....not beside them....but before them to make sure their path is even and smooth. This isn't life; no one blossoms without being blown hither and yon from time to time. No caterpillar becomes a butterfly without internal strength and struggle. No chick survives unless the process of breaking through the hard shell of the egg is done alone. We grow only through trials and tribulations. We blossom only by surviving the thunderstorms as well as the sunny days. So when you look at your inner circle, make sure you haven't built a security fence so high that those enclosed can never truly live.