The Metamorphosis from Caterpillar to Butterfly

One day, when Rajib was about six or seven years old, he came home crying hysterically because one of his friends fell of some playground equipment at school and died. I sat down with Rajib and said, "Honey, I know how you feel. You miss him, and you should feel those feelings. But you should also realize that you feel this way because you're a caterpillar." He said. "What?" I had had broken his thinking pattern a little bit. I said, "You're thinking like a caterpillar." He asked me what I meant.

"There's point", I said, "Where most caterpillars think that they have died. They think life has ended. When is that? "He said,”Oh yeah, when that thing starts wrapping around them." I said, "Yeah, pretty soon the caterpillar gets wrapped in its cocoon, berried by all this stuff and you know what? If you were to open up that cocoon, the caterpillar is no longer there. There's just all this mush and goo and stuff. And most people, including the caterpillar, think it's dying. But really it's beginning to transform. Do you understand? It is going from one thing to something else. And pretty soon, what does it become?" And he said, "A butterfly,"

I asked, "Can their other little caterpillars on the ground see that this caterpillar breaks out of the cocoon, what he does? Rajib said "He flies." I said, "Yeah, he gets out and the sunlight dries off his wings and he flies. He's even more beautiful than when he was a caterpillar. Is he feels more free or less free? Rajib said, "He's freer." And I said, "Do you think he'll have more fun?", and he said, "Yeah, he's got less legs to get tired!" And I said, "That's right, he doesn't need legs anymore; he's got wings. I think your friend has wings now.

"You see, its not for us to decide when somebody becomes a butterfly. We think it's wrong, but I think God has a better idea what and when the right time is. Right now its winter and you want it be summer, but God has different plan. Sometimes we just have to trust that God knows how to make butterflies better than we do. And to make butterflies better than we do. And when we're caterpillar, sometimes we don't even realize that butterflies exists, because they're up above us, but maybe we should just remember that they are there. And Rajib smiled, gave me big hug and said, 'I bet he's a beautiful butterfly."

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A FULL BOX OF KISSES

The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became infuriated when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree.

Nevertheless, the little 3-year-old girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said "This is for you, Daddy." He was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found the box was empty. He yelled at her, "Don't you know that when you give someone a gift, there's supposed to be something inside it?" The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said, "Oh, Daddy, it is not empty. I blew kisses into the box. All for you, Daddy." The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her forgiveness.

It is told that the man kept that gold box by his bed for years and whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the 3-year-old child who had put it there.

-Author Unknown