Life of a butterfly!
Is it simple or complicated?
what can we learn from it?
Does a caterpillar dream of flying?
Does it know its uniqueness?
Does a butterfly live to beautify others' life? give happiness?
Let's discover the life of a butterfly!
If we observe carefully we can learn how a butterfly's life is similar to human life.
A butterfly's life has three stages:-
Caterpillar↠Pupa↠Butterfly
☝ Caterpillar:-
The journey of a butterfly's life starts with its birth as a caterpillar or larva.
A caterpillar's work is to eat, eat and eat!!! As it grows it splits its skin and sheds it about 4 0r 5 times. At this stage, it can grow up to 100x size from it's birth, food eaten at this time is stored & used later as an adult.
"Similarly if we look at our lives at birth we are like a plain paper, we are born blank.....as at this stage caterpillars work is to eat, eat & eat, similarly we learn, learn, & learn & grow. We learn to speak, write, eat, manners, observe, develop, study, make friends, play, enjoy, and much more...
This is our age between 1 to 14 years.
As a caterpillar sheds skin 4 to 5 times in order to grow, humans experience different situations in life during this age and adapt to change, experience changes, and grow through them.
To understand better here's an example:-
Adam is 12 years old, he is very innocent & gullible. One day in school, his group of friends whom he loves very much starts making fun of him and bullying him, considering him weak; still because of his innocence, Adam wants to be with them, rather than changing group or facing them.
Slowly Adam realizes from his mistake that his friends are not worthy of him or making his fun all the time! which makes him weak.
Then he joins another group of friends who makes each other strong and respect each other.
So this example depicts how we slowly realize change at this age and learn from our mistakes and grow through to it and shed our skins behind.
As the food eaten by the caterpillar is stored & used later, alike our experiences, learnings, changes, actions, and thoughts from this age are useful to us throughout our life and essentialy in the upcoming phase of life.
✌ Pupa:-
When a caterpillar is fully grown it becomes Pupa or Cocoon!
Pupa may suspend under a branch, leaves, or underground.
It may look like nothing is going on, but big changes are happening inside.
Special cells that were present in larva are now growing rapidly. They will become the legs, wings, eyes, & other parts of the adult butterfly.
Now, this is our age between 15-30. The phase of life where we explore ourselves, explore the world, learn how it works, How life is lived? what is life? how to deal with our problems? we take knowledge, we make connections, and we search for answers to thousands of questions in our minds.
Age 15-24 is the age of exploring ourselves, this is a critical period where we may feel lonely, angry, stressed, depressed, being judged, criticized, face failures, and look like we are gonna do nothing, Because! we haven't found the meaning & purpose of our life!
But! here we learn from our life, mistakes, explore ourselves, experimenting, growing from inside, searching for meaning & purpose of our lives, developing our skills, creating happiness, learning to help & serve, finding the meaning of success, learning emotional intelligence, social intelligence, personal intelligence.
EXAMPLE:- When we were young kid, we just used to get Angry & react in anger, without a thought.
Whereas in this age of 15-21 we learn when to let go of Anger, control it, How to stay calm during anger, and what to speak!!
And if we fail anger becomes our enemy for lifetime, which can ruin our relations, business, job, or whole life.
EXAMPLE:- when were young kid we thought of becoming doctor, teacher, scientist, engineer etc. without understanding deeply... As we grow we start looking for passion & talent inside us, work on those skills, and develop them & follow it throughout our life in harmony with the meaning & purpose of our life.
It sounds similar to a pupa's life where it is alone inside, looks like nothing is happening from outside, but from inside, it develops it legs & wings & eyes as do we!! to form a butterfly.
👌 Butterfly:-
The adult stage looks very different from the caterpillar, it gets big legs, antenna, eyes & colorful wings ready to fly & beautify other life.
After the struggle from 15-30 or even 40. We are released from our cocoon to be butterflies, where we found the meaning of life, the purpose of life, have reached our goals, beautifying life of people around us, found out peace and learned to be happy in our lives, learnt to fly, & reach new heights!!
If we also observe the life cycle of a moth is also the same as a butterfly, though the difference between them is that, the butterfly beautifies the life of others whereas the moth is kind of selfish and ruins the lives of others.
Finally, some more insights and learnings from a butterfly are:-
1. Patience
2. Everything happens at its predestined time.
3. If we feel we are lost or lonely, remember how a cocoon turns into a butterfly by being alone!
4. Attitude of never giving up!
5. Always focused on growing and working on self
6. Every butterfly is unique.
7. Struggle is part of life.
8. Spreading happiness!!
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Here's a beautiful video of a butterfly's life:
