Thursday, July 9, 2009

Life as a butterfly

If you know me, even in the slightest, you know my obsession with butterflies. I have a butterfly tattoo to represent the challenges and struggles I've endured to become the person I am today. I've associated my life with a butterflies life since I was in the 4th grade.
......It's something that is very important to me.

Well I'm passing my "butterfly" outlook onto my Sister who is about to embark on an adventure all her own. She's fleeing the nest and traveling miles upon miles away from home to experience something completely organic to her. Sure she'll be with her boyfriend for the first month, but after that she will be on her own traveling Greece and Italy. At first I was super bummed about her being so far away from me, but I'm beginning to realize she needs this experience to become her butterfly.

Not everyone experiences what they need to experience in order to become the person they are destined to be in their own backyard. Some travel, some go off to college, some move away and stay close, or move across the country. Regardless, you can't reach your final stage unless you are challenged.

Mikaella will be challenged, she'll have to work through language barriers and home sickness, but in the end I truly believe she will find her butterfly and be forever changed by it (in the best way possible).

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over... it became a butterfly."

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