“With
the last stroke of her luck and with the zeal to change her fate, she waves,
flutters around, with all the energy escaping her poor body, she moves closer
to death. I stare, a lot, trying to figure out what is exactly the feeling my
mind has being a mute witness to the suffering of the poor one.
The cycle continues, life to death, cradle to grave. As Shakespeare had said,
we are mere players on the stage of the world with our own entrances and exits.
Indeed, rather than death what surprises me are the stages and roles of man in
his life and in all the lives he touches upon. "
Egg to a caterpillar, metamorphosis one.
Everyone in their lives have certain initiation points. It
might be circumstantial, emotional, economic or in varied other manifestations.
Both everyone has it. Initiation is probably the time when the fabric of one’s
life starts taking its colors and the texture it ought to retain for quite some
time.
Caterpillar to Pupa, metamorphosis two.
Love, it seems to me gets one his second big change. It did
for me. And for most of the first time lovers, the feeling is so passionate,
dominating, and exposing. Its vile, vicious and vivacious all being at the time
you need to focus on discovering yourself. It all boils down to prioritizing
then, after you have tried to sort out things, you realize that it’s a deeper
chaos. A babel of sounds reverberating around, of passion and compassion. Love
teaches you the difference between the two and once you realize, you actually
have a powerful tool for your ordeal in life.
And the butterfly soars high,
Yet to experience this stage personally, but I feel there
comes a time when your self-identity is so oppressed being encapsulated in the
disguise of your apparent self that it breaks free. Revolutionary or not,
doesn’t matter but I guess a time comes when all the hopes and dreams start
taking shape and you start walking a lonely road, Conventional or nuveau, it
doesn’t matter, it’s the time one starts making an impression, carving a niche
for himself. The way you look, the way you interact, the way you love; all of
them have been customized to suit your panache.
La finale… “and the
wings bereft of the soul, stop fluttering and she departs”
The niche is carved, the impressions made, a slow departure
to oblivion, a silent one. Blissfully in solitude. Contended in faith. The
Metamorphosis concludes.
*p.s. pokemon enthusiasts can refer to the above as
evolution, caterpree->metapod->butterfree, J*
