Continuing my thoughts about spring, we visited the Butterfly Pavilion at Disney World that is part of the flower and garden show. The Butterfly is so symbolic and has a powerful lesson that we can learn – “before growth can occur, the old must be undone.”
The caterpillar is completely lost when a butterfly is made. The caterpillar is replaced by something beautiful that has been forged in loss, struggle, and potentially pain. This is very much like us as we may experience something similar in our lives. Once we have received knowledge, experience, struggle, or suffering in some way, it undoes us.
But unlike the butterfly, this struggle gives us a choice. We have a choice to remain undone or to fight to emerge with new beauty and power. What will you choose? And you may have to make this choice more than once in your life and career.
I can tell you that what I would choose is to emerge from this state as someone new and to fly to greater heights! It might take time, patience and humility but we can emerge from the darkness of the caterpillar into the warmth of the butterfly with the “wind beneath our wings.”
