Chrysalis. Beneath your Beautiful.
“Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.” ― Haruki Murakami Butterflies. Don't we all love them? Me- I was actually pretty afraid of butterflies till a while ago (yes, yes, laugh all you want), till they actually inspired me to a huge extent. Nature really is the best teacher. Oh these butterflies, magnificently hued and the objects of everyone's envy! But then again, I wonder- what do we envy? We envy their beauty, we envy the fact that they blossomed from relatively ugly little green caterpillars to incandescent self propelled flowers, if I may put it that way and we envy everything that we cannot be, or cannot do. Human nature. About a month ago, while studying Botany, I came across the fact that butterflies have short life spans. Yes the longest might be a year, but their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. I remember thinking to myself that this was y...