Everyone of us is a butterfly. Once in our life we were caterpillars too.  The cocoon of our life is the web that weaves us; it builds and helps in our transformation.  We were transformed by the beauty of what’s really inside of us. Life is a journey. It’s a very long walk where you can be stripped by some rock on the side of the road or it can be a place where you can roll your wheels freely and easily.

It’s a street connected to other hundreds of streets the cross or either intersect with each other. It brings you to different places and makes you meet different kinds of people. A hundred miles journey begins with a single step. Our first step which is our baby steps, One by one, we unravel the things around us, we discover the world. When we can finally stand on our own, we run for the freedom and independence that we have and start the beginnings of our own journey.

Along our way, we make mistakes and make right choices; we decide and later regret our decision. We get upset, we learn to know what hurt and sadness feels like, what happiness and love feels like. We grow older, we become tall and sturdy but as we grow older we gain wisdom of who we really are, what make us of our journey and the essence of life. As the street lengthens and grew wide there will always be this continuous happy and sad moments on the way. Sometimes we get lost in the middle of it all even though at first, we know where we are going. Sometimes, we changed our minds and make loops and turns. At some moments, we just stop, we got tired by our own actions or there’s this big block that is beyond our control to move. Those instances will definitely make us head into another direction; many future events like this will surely come. It’s not always according to what we plan.

Everyday on the street is a surprise. And you will never really know what can happen next. You can be stepped on by another person or you can be the one that steps on them. It’s not always what we want. It’s not what we meant to show even if we did actions like that by our own selves. We make our own choices, but life is not a choice. Choices are not always available in some circumstances. Some give up along their journey, some strive for more that they lost themselves in doing so, while some actually didn’t care and just go on with others. There are really only few people that know what they really want and stood firm in that path that they choose. Realization and regret always comes later, and many people regret a lot. It’s a sad thing because not all the places we want to return to, stays the same. Everything changes, everyone move forward, but some were so pre-occupied in wanting so much to move forward that they lost their moment in their own lives and get astray with the crowd.

But even though we walked a very steep downhill, that we go tumbling up and down and left standing on our knees, we make our new beginnings, we travel to a new place again with new hope and strength, because challenges in life make us more stronger and patient.

Then, somewhere along our way, on the least of places that we didn’t expect, among the busy crowd and buzzing people, along the streets and traffic lights, there will be this person that we will eventually meet, then it will never be the same again for us. Days will be more memorable and bright. Our journey is no longer our main focus and drive, our ambitious plan to conquer the world and travel more to some unknown places will be changed. Because for the first time, we feel like we are finally home and that’s enough, ironically that person means much more than the world will ever offer to us.

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return. It changes everything, it changes our views, and makes us more mature because as we love a person, we are giving a certain part of ourselves to them but still we feel more complete than ever. We learn how to make sacrifices for the sake of those people we love and deep inside us, we know that whatever happens, those people will still be there for us. Even if everything changes, the ones who truly love us never will.

With the nurturing shower of love we grow beautifully like butterflies with their magnificent colors. We soon fly with our wings and spread our seeds of love for others. It will make a world, full of beautiful flowers.

This is the tale of a caterpillar

Who has trouble becoming what he really is.

It’s like myself —like us.

-Trina Paulus

This Book is all about the story of a young caterpillar and his quest to become a butterfly. Stripe burst from an egg that’s been sheltering him and face the bright sunshine. Right after that he ate and ate leaves and got bigger. Soon, Stripe leaves his home tree and began to discover every little thing about the world. He is marveled by everything he saw and what he had known, but after a while... all of those things that once excite him were already a bore to him as time goes by as he crawl and crawl. He wants to find new excitement. One day, he saw the Caterpillar pillar which is a tower of caterpillars. Stripe was so intrigued by what he saw. It’s seems that his fellow caterpillars on the Caterpillar pillar were trying to reach the top that almost reaches the clouds. It was then that Stripe felt the excitement he is looking for in his life than crawling, so he began to crawl with other caterpillars. As Stripe climbed the Caterpillar pillar he discovered many things aside from going to the top, things that never once cross his mind. It was the climb of his life, not until he met yellow along the way.