Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Butterflies are Free

I believe there was a movie many years ago with the above title although I never saw it.
All my life I have loved butterflies.  When I was little I collected the butterfly cards that came in the box of Red Rose tea.  As a teenager I saved articles and pictures of butterflies when they came in the Saturday weekend magazine of the newspaper.  I’ve even painted butterflies when I was in painting form.
       Biology was my chosen science in high school and when we learned about caterpillars, it’s life cycle of egg, caterpillar (larva), pupa and butterfly fascinated me.  After I learned that a caterpillar turned into a butterfly I had so much respect for them and would go out of my way not to harm them.  Not being an ignoramus the butterfly analogy in certain romantic novels did not escape me and yes, I am in danger of using this trite comparison today.
       Humans can be simple and they can be complex but they all go through normal stages of life, infants, young childhood, teenager, youth, adult, middle aged adult, and the elderly.  However in today’s world of longevity the phase from middle age to elderly is much longer and I think we are at that time in history where we need to come up with another phase of life.  We have heard the word Zoomers here in Canada, I’ve also heard “Nexters” but both are too trendy for a life phase.  Post-middle age maybe.
       Or perhaps we just avoid putting a label on it and simply live it.  Live it with Zest, Verve, Enthusiasm, Delight.  Move in to a time where we experience true bliss.  We know who we are, we know what we love, we are still able to accomplish the things that delight us.
       We, the people.

No comments:

Post a Comment