One Month. 🦋

I have been thinking a lot lately about butterflies and because they have been on my mind, naturally I have been seeing a lot of them. While on my family vacation my Dad mentioned how a butterfly only lives a very short time. I couldn't quite shake that thought. And now, every time I see one I see them as not only a beautiful butterfly, but also as a ticking time bomb. It made me want to know more and to think more on this. Through my research I have found that butterflies, on average, live about one month. Their soul purpose is to mate and then die. They are here to leave a legacy of leaving more of their kind on this earth and once they are done with their task, they die. How poetic is that?! 

It got me thinking that if I was a butterfly, how would I want to live my one month to the fullest? I have decided to break it down.

My fist day as a butterfly:🦋

I would make my presence known. I would FLY! I would SOAR to as many places as I could. I would want to meet as many people as I could and see as much as I could. I would want to be known as the "friendly" butterfly and to be known as the one that someone could come up and talk to if they felt like they needed to. I would focus on my sight mostly. I'd become observant of how life worked and how I could fit into it.

The weeks following:🦋

In the weeks following I would continue to explore and discover new things and ideas. I would want to feel all the emotions one feels in their lifetime. I would want to feel happiness, joy, sorrow, pain, laughter, excitement, love, the list could go on and on... I would want to try and feel it all because I think feeling all the feels would make me a stronger butterfly.

My last weeks on earth:🦋

I would hope to find love, a kind of love that I would do anything for, I kind of love that pushes me to be the best version of myself and still gives me the freedom to be me. I would hope to find love and in the last remaining weeks on earth, I would want to spend it with all the people I meant along my journey. I would want to feel all the emotions again because that's what it feels like to be alive! I would want to know that my last few weeks on this earth was worth every pain, every heartache, every loss, every tear, ever laugh, every smile... I want to know it was all worth it.

My last day as a butterfly:🦋

After much thought, I would want my last day to be spent making as many people as I can smile. Many people associate butterflies with their loved ones that have past away. When they see a butterfly they often think that it is their loved one coming down from heaven to check in. I would want to be that moment of joy for them. I would want to be that piece of heaven that visits them and gives them some sense of peace. In my last moments of being a butterfly, I think I would die smiling, knowing that I did all I could do in my short time. I would die happy knowing that I made an impact on earth, even if it was a small one.

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Even just thinking about being a butterfly made me realize more than I thought I would about my life as a human on this earth. I see now that all the other "stuff" that happens in life, the jealousy, the egoistical behavior, the thrill of winning, the desire to "always be right," the silliness of losing a dear friend over something you don't know anything about, is all just ghoulish! It doesn't matter. The negativity doesn't matter, the worry, the anxiety the stress... it just doesn't matter. When I die, all of that is just not going to matter. What's going to matter is the love that I felt in my heart, the joy I had in my smiles, the heartbreak I felt when I lost someone I loved, the family that I made, the memories that I have in my heart. 

That's what going to matter. 

And so, I ask you now, how would you live your life if you were a butterfly? 🦋

Enjoy life while you can, smile at people, tell your story, listen, be thoughtful and courages when times get tough and don't let the "stuff" of life get to you because in the end, it just doesn't matter. 

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