Cocoon

A cocoon is often known to be related to transformation. Conversely, it is used to bring out how man blocks himself from the outer world, resisting change because they fear changes, challenges and trials or simply see no point in changing.

Cocoon - A Poem by Robert Frost
As far as I can see this autumn haze
That spreading in the evening air both way,
Makes the new moon look anything but new,
And pours the elm-tree meadow full of blue,
Is all the smoke from one poor house alone
With but one chimney it can call its own;
So close it will not light an early light,
Keeping its life so close and out of sign
No one for hours has set a foot outdoors
So much as to take care of evening chores.
The inmates may be lonely women-folk.
I want to tell them that with all this smoke
They prudently are spinning their cocoon
And anchoring it to an earth and moon
From which no winter gale can hope to blow it,
--Spinning their own cocoon did they but know it.

If we are 'cocooned', can anyone get to us? Will growth take place in that type of cocoon? Are we willing to struggle out of it and embrace all that is out there for us? Or are we feeling nice and making ourselves comfortable in there?

Perhaps this once, the 'grass' IS greener on the outside.
Would you believe it?