LifeSightsSound

This morning while I was on the train,I was thinking about the walk to the train station, not a long walk but it was so cold and yet it was spring and it was supposed to usher in summer yet it is 2 degrees.. I reclined my head on the seat as the 15 mins train glide along the rails. there it was staring back at me, a caterpillar, not a pretty sight, my initial thought was to kick and squash it with my shoe… savage .hahhahahaha. It got me thinking, “so this ugly thing will become a beautiful butterfly by ingesting itself…awwww

To become a butterfly, a caterpillar first digests itself. But certain groups of cells survive, turning the soup into eyes, wings, antennae and other adult structures.

Once a caterpillar has disintegrated all of its tissues except for the imaginal discs, those discs use the protein-rich soup all around them to fuel the rapid cell division required to form the wings, antennae, legs, eyes, genitals and all the other features of an adult butterfly or moth. The imaginal disc for a fruit fly’s wing, for example, might begin with only 50 cells and increase to more than 50,000 cells by the end of metamorphosis. Depending on the species, certain caterpillar muscles and sections of the nervous system are largely preserved in the adult butterfly.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/caterpillar-butterfly-metamorphosis-explainer/

I am not here to talk about the caterpillar or the butterfly but to liken it to Life, sometimes, I feel like a caterpillar, everything is working against me, I am slow, people criticise me, my decision and sometimes I am not anywhere near pretty (in my head). I am sure the caterpillar feels like everybody it comes across just wants to kill it. sometimes we need to remind ourselves that though that situation looks like it is the end of you but you will go through it and come out as a beautiful butterfly.

We need to go through stuff, pass through fire to become pure gold, just like the caterpillar has to ingest itself in order to be a butterfly and video shows it is a painful process…..

I opened my eyes I was at my rail station, the caterpillar gone and a smile on my face..

Charity go through it and come out a butterfly… I hope you see yourself as a butterfly and not a caterpillar>> Breathe as you go through the process, soon you will fly into the sunset.

yours sincerly

CIA