Caterpillar Outlook

Crawling and inching on the leaves of plants, the caterpillar makes his day to day life this way. Not knowing what is above him, nor does he know of the flowers that rest above his head. The caterpillar inches ignorantly by making each day count before his evolution. Day by day the caterpillar eats the leaves for nutrients it will have to store, for his journey is long and takes patients. The caterpillar proceeds with nothing but cautiousness- there is always the possibility that the caterpillar could be eaten by a larger predator or picked up by a curious young child. Fascinated, by the caterpillar's many legs and worm like movements.

To think, just a few days ago, the mysterious caterpillar was nothing more then a tiny larva, and before that an egg. Even more clueless than it was now. Knowing nothing more then where it had been hatched. It is there that the caterpillar learns to crawl with his legs, learns what hunger is, and realizes what he must do to fly amongst the butterfly.

Eagerly, the caterpillar looks for an area fit for his metamorphosis to begin. He crawls into a safe zone, and with haste starts getting the cocoon ready. Though fast, the caterpillar takes his time on the detail of the cocoon. This is where the caterpillar will meditate and patiently transform.

There is a lot of time to think in the caterpillar's cocoon. He sits and waits while recapping on his adventures from egg to larva and then to caterpillar. This is where the caterpillar begins seeing the world differently; even though, the caterpillar can see nothing at all. As the caterpillar slowly becomes less ignorant to the world he has seen. His evolution begins to come to an end. The lime green skin turns brown, a sucker forms instead of teeth, and beautiful multi-colored wings begin to spread out.

Through darkness, the caterpillar has evolved into a butterfly. Slowly, the butterfly emerges with new found attributes and abilities. Opening a whole new world to the once caterpillar, the butterfly can now see things from above. The butterfly can look down and see all of his rigorous challenges he had to overcome to become the butterfly he is today. He can see: the new eggs, the clueless larva, the ignorant hard working caterpillars, and the safe-zoned cocoons, that are slowly enlightening the uneducated caterpillars.

As the butterfly's quests come to an end- Every butterfly has a week life span- the butterfly finds a mate and settles down. The butterfly has come to terms with his death and passes on his gene into his spouse's eggs. Soon the eggs will hatch and the larva will enter a new world of their own. Which, of course, leads into new journeys and quests for each and every one of them. All with the similar goal. Happiness.