The butterfly that thought it was still a caterpillar (Story of transformation)

This tale of transformation tells us the story of a butterfly that thought it was still a caterpillar. This story tells us about transformation and the lack of acceptance of it.

The truth is that sometimes we have more power than we want to see and we waste our energy resisting change, looking into the past, trying to be who we no longer are.

The butterfly that thought it was still a caterpillar

Some time ago a small caterpillar was born that with some difficulty crawled on the ground from one place to another. Until one day, tired of crawling, she decided to climb a tree. But not just any tree, He chose to climb a tree with a large trunk and weeping leaves. The one he had played, grown and lived under for years.

The caterpillar climbed and climbed, but it slipped, fell and could not move forward. Despite this, he did not stop his efforts and, step by step, little by little, he managed to climb. He came to a branch from which he could see the entire valley. The views were wonderful, from there she could see other animals, she could contemplate the blue sky with white cotton clouds and on the horizon a large sea painted an intense blue. From that branch the caterpillar breathed peace.

He stood still, observing the world around him, and felt that life was too beautiful not to transform with it. She was tired and at the same time grateful for her life as a caterpillar, but she knew that the time had come to become another being.

A tale of transformation from caterpillar to butterfly

The caterpillar fell asleep feeling great peace around him and thinking that his destiny was to be something more than a simple caterpillar. He slept and slept, making a chrysalis grow around hima shell that kept her with that feeling of peace long enough to become another being.

When she woke up she felt trapped in a heavy shell that did not allow her to move. He felt that something strange had grown on his back, with effort He moved what looked like enormous blue wings and the shell broke. The caterpillar was no longer a caterpillar, it was a blue butterfly. However, the caterpillar had been a caterpillar for so long that she did not realize that she was no longer a caterpillar.

The blue butterfly climbed down the tree using its small legs, even though it now had wings. He carried the weight of those great blue wings, a weight that little by little consumed his strength. The blue butterfly moved using its legs as it had always done, it believed it was still a caterpillar and continued living as if it were. But his wings did not allow him to move over the ground with as much agility as before.

The weight of the wings

The butterfly that thought it would remain a caterpillar did not understand why its life had become so complicated. Tired of carrying the weight of her wings, she decided to return to the branch she had transformed into. This time, when trying to climb the tree, moving forward was impossible.

A gust of wind or any other small unforeseen event would cause it to retreat. The butterfly that she thought was still a caterpillar stayed still and She looked up at that branch that seemed so far away as she began to cry, desperate.. Hearing her cry, a beautiful and knowing white butterfly approached, It landed on a flower and for a while watched the blue butterfly without saying anything. When her crying calmed down, the white butterfly said to her:

What’s happening to you?I can’t climb up that branch. Something that before, although with great difficulty, I could do.Even if you can’t climb to that branch…, maybe you can fly to it.

The blue butterfly that thought it was still a caterpillar She looked strangely at the white butterfly and then looked at herself and her large, heavy wings. Like the day she came out of her shell, she moved them with force and opened them. They were so big and beautiful, such an intense blue that her transformed caterpillar got scared and quickly closed them again.

If you don’t use your wings you are wearing out your legs.- Said the white butterfly. taking flight as he spread his wise wings and walked away gracefully.

Raise the flight

The blue butterfly watched the white butterfly’s every movement in amazement and reflected on its words. In that moment He began to understand that he was no longer a caterpillar, that perhaps those heavy wings could be useful.

He opened them again and this time he kept them open, he closed his eyes and felt the wind caressing them. She felt that those wings were now part of her and accepted that she was no longer a caterpillar, so she could not continue living as one, crawling on the ground.

She opened her wings more and more, she became more and more of a butterfly and less of a caterpillar, she observed the beautiful, almost magical blue of her wings. When she realized she was flying, she was slowly ascending towards that branch. Flying was much easier than dragging her legs, although she still had to perfect her flight. He discovered that the fear of flying had not allowed him to accept who he really was, a caterpillar transformed into a blue butterfly.

This tale of transformation is the story of a butterfly who thought he was still a caterpillar. It is the story of the beautiful blue butterfly, with large strong and resistant wings, capable of going against the current., to fly in the middle of storms and face the most powerful wind. The blue butterfly had large and beautiful wings of a luminous blue. A blue that contains a wide range of blue tones from the color of the clearest sky to the angriest sea. But she didn’t even know it herself.

The teachings of the blue butterfly transformation story

The transition from caterpillar to butterfly is one of the most used metaphors to talk about resilience. Butterflies are a symbol of transformation, a symbol of fragility and greatness simultaneously. That is why it is easy to find a butterfly as the protagonist of a story of transformation.

This story of transformation reminds us that we live in a changing world, in a world in constant evolution and that we are parts of that dynamic world, being part of that evolution. But sometimes, even though we have transformed and have the strength to evolve, we do not quite accept it for different reasons such as: fear, shame, guilt…

On this occasion, a beautiful and strong blue butterfly does not quite accept that it is no longer a caterpillar, and therefore cannot live as if it were one. A part of her wanted to evolve, but another part of her fears her changes and tries to hold on to her past and continue living the same way, even as another being. It will take her some time to accept and discover what her wings are for and how she can live from now on. For this she will need some help. In this sense, Let’s think that others tend to see our strengths more clearly than we ourselves.

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