A Caterpillar Becoming A Butterfly
By srjac0902
@srjac0902 (1169)
Italy
December 3, 2011 2:39pm CST
Everybody gets attracted to a butterfly and enjoys watching. A Butterfyl is so much enchanting with its multiple colors. But we must remember that this butterfly was once an ugly worm or a caterpillar.
The Butterfly is a transformed creature. It udergoes four stages of metamorphosis. It begins with the female butterfly laying her eggs on a plant, then the larva is being formed. it is so much ugly. then a caterpillar is being formed. It breaks out its own shell and continues to grow from outside. It begins to eat its own shell and then goes on the leaf where the egges had been laid. When the butterfly is fully grown then it casts out a thin stream of liquid from the gland under its mouth. Then the silk thread has been formed which the caterpillar attaches to the leaf. It is from this thread that the caterpillar weaves a shell to cover its body. The a pupa is being formed inside the shell. When this pupa gets matured then it casts off a kind of fluid which softens the shell. Then within no time the transformed pupa, now a butterfly pumps air into its own body, then blood begins to flow, and now the butterfly is ready to fly away free. So the process is hard and there is a lot of self effort.
Then we, if we want to be transformed, we must enter into ourselves, we have to attune our mind and heart to the supreme Being and then surely we will be transformed.
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@lilaclady (28206)
• Australia
3 Dec 11
Butterfly is a beautiful thing and its life span is a very interesting cycle, I love to see the butterflies in a walk through butterfly house at tha zoo, they have it ver hot and the butterflies just flutter around and even land on the people as they walk through, it is wonderful to see the kids when the butterflies sit on their head, they are just beautiful
@thewonderboy (7501)
• India
4 Dec 11
Hey lilaclady ,
I love those butterflies who are sincere and truthful like you. I like those butterfly which is very colorful. Usually in my childhood days I used to catch up the butterfly and like just to play with them and in mylot have have many butterflies you you.may god bless you to fly a long distance with the spring of colors.
Thewonderboy
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@Triple0 (1904)
• Australia
4 Dec 11
That's right! Just like butterflies and just like people. People grow and change through time, through the things they experience and are exposed to and this changes people. Though, there are some people who will always be a caterpillar and will never reach the butterfly stage. They may but it could be too late. I remember reading a story about a girl who was constantly teased, bullied and pushed down at the bottom at an all girl's school because she wasn't popular or pretty like the others. It was a true story and the writer never saw the girl again after she left for a few years. When the writer was graduating from college, she saw the same girl again but did not recognize her at first. Turned out, the once ugly and bullied girl was a beautiful young woman who was the dean! It just shows how people can flourish and change so much through experiences, some good and bad. We shouldn't judge people and only see the caterpillar, we just need to dwell a little deeper i order to see the butterfly popping out of the cocoon. 
Just like butterflies and just like people. People grow and change through time, through the things they experience and are exposed to and this changes people. Though, there are some people who will always be a caterpillar and will never reach the butterfly stage. They may but it could be too late. I remember reading a story about a girl who was constantly teased, bullied and pushed down at the bottom at an all girl's school because she wasn't popular or pretty like the others. It was a true story and the writer never saw the girl again after she left for a few years. When the writer was graduating from college, she saw the same girl again but did not recognize her at first. Turned out, the once ugly and bullied girl was a beautiful young woman who was the dean! It just shows how people can flourish and change so much through experiences, some good and bad. We shouldn't judge people and only see the caterpillar, we just need to dwell a little deeper i order to see the butterfly popping out of the cocoon. @kingparker (9673)
• United States
3 Dec 11
Nice metaphor, and we should consider this as a great example for our path to success. Not everyone can be a butterfly, but we can do the best we can to achieve the most beauty form of our own. We should give ourselves the confidence and the effort to do things. I hope everyone understand this concept.
@cearn25 (3452)
• Philippines
4 Dec 11
Humans are just like butterflies. We also undergo different stages in life. From being young until we get old. It is a lifetime process. If the butterflies have able to transform into very beautiful insect, we too can be transform into a wonderful human being. It only needs self-determination that we can achieve success in life.
