Friday, July 13, 2012

three hundred words a day. july 13.

Remember when you got your first car, and then somehow it seemed that everywhere you drove, every single person was driving the very same car as you?

That didn't actually happen to me since my first car was a number of years old and had no air conditioning and I lived in Arizona and there is no person in their right mind that would buy a car without air conditioning in Arizona except apparently my dad, but I digress...

What I mean is that it seems when there is something you love or something you have or something you want, the world displays it for you in all its glory.  Everywhere.

Two years ago was a bit turning point for me, emotionally.  In the aftermath, I posted a note to my blog that I titled metamorphosis where I compared the growth and change in my life to that of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.  The process has not always been pleasant and I have not always been accepting of the stages I find myself in.  But, somewhere deep inside, I do realize that while I may never get fully there, I am slowly moving forward.  Slowly making progress on me.  On my way to becoming the butterfly that I was meant to be.

It's a process.  And yet, the importance of that process is made easier daily by the fact that everywhere I look now, I see them.  Butterflies. 

In real life.  At the mall.  In magazines, photos and film. 


In fact, the visual was so incredibly significant to me, so important to remember, that I chose to forgo the pencil and penned them in ink, for keeps.  Everytime I look - they'll be there. 

Continue on...  If you help a butterfly out of its cocoon, it will never fly.

2 comments:

hilary said...

love to you, lady. can't wait to see the finished ink.

Anonymous said...

NO ONE had my first car as is was a Gremlin (American Motors). Yeah, you're too young...!
I didn't have AC for ten years when I moved to AZ-only got it in my car after I found out I was going to have my daughter! Couldn't imagine not having it now.

Continue to grow and try your wings with new experiences.