caligirl67410's Journal

I read this on one of my friend's post and absolutely loved it and it was so me.  I had just written to another friend about how I felt like I was finally leaving the cocoon and was now a butterfly and ready to fly out into the world. 

What if someone ever told me I would get married, to have a divorce so I would learn to truly love myself? I would probably think they were nuts.

What if someone said they loved me and in the name of love they would erase who I am so I would get my ground shaken to slowly learn to rebuild a solid ground from within? I would think they don't wish me well.

What if someone said that like a butterfly needs to emerge from a cocoon, that divorce would be the hardest and most wonderful transformation I could ever experience in my life? I would think life is too short for that.

What if someone said humans need to experience a great loss to be great people, fuller in essence than ever, and experience life in its fullest from a much deeper level? I would think they are not smelling enough flowers along their path.

Looking back, I would most certainly not want to go back to the coccoon and wish I was eternally a butterfly. But we can't really know what it would feel like to be a butterfly if we had not been wishing for that from a suppressed place and made the choice to enjoy each baby step to get to really enjoy life in all accounts. Gotta have nothing to loose and no fears to truly enjoy life.