Seeing this butterfly this morning made me realize that it is like how our parents molded us. When we were still crawling like the catterpillar, they have countless of sleepless nights. They sacrificed a lot of me time like movies, salon, shopping and more like how the leaves of a plant sacrifices when the catterpillar eats most of their leaves. They let us enjoy each moment because our happiness is a treasured moment written in their hearts.
They nurture us inside our homes with so much love, knowledge, guidance, support, protection and unlimited understanding and patience to give us only the best. Like the pupa holding and protecting the tiny soon to be butterfly inside her.
Even if it hurts, they allowed us and set us free to explore the world and reach for our dreams. They are cheering for us in every milestone that we achieve, even if maybe, just maybe, deep in their hearts they want us to be forever beside them. Like when a butterfly is finding her way out of her pupa, gaining enough energy and fly away.
These are the cycles of life and after writing this article, I am a bit saddened because I have a baby now and soon she will be on her own. She would no longer ask mommy to carry her until she falls asleep. She would no longer ask mommy to feed her or to even ask water to drink. She would no longer wants mommy to sleep beside her and sing her favorite lullaby.
This is the fact of life that is hard to accept and endure and there is no perfect and enough time to prepare a. As much as we want to hold our babies in our hands forever, we need to let go and let them fly.