If you had to be an animal for a week, which one would you be and why?
If I Had to Be an Animal for a Week…
A butterfly 🦋
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Not because she’s beautiful.
But because she has absolutely no idea that she is.
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She doesn’t fly past flowers thinking,
“Good morning, everyone. Kindly admire my wings.”
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No.
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She simply wanders from bloom to bloom,
living her tiny, colorful life
without checking mirrors,
without counting likes,
without asking,
“Do these wings make me look fat?”
(Imagine if butterflies had social media.
“Just hatched. No filter.” 🦋)
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The funny part?
Nobody applauds the caterpillar.
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Let’s be honest.
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If a caterpillar applied for a beauty pageant,
even the leaves would politely excuse themselves.
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But then comes the quiet miracle.
The waiting.
The breaking.
The transformation.
And suddenly…
the same little creature that once crawled
begins to fly.
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Gold becomes pure only after enduring fire.
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A butterfly becomes beautiful only after surviving its cocoon.
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Maybe we are not so different.
Most of us never realize how much we’ve grown.
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We keep showing up.
We keep loving.
We keep healing.
We keep surviving.
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We rarely notice the strength we’ve earned
or the beauty that quietly settled into our souls.
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Someone else sees it long before we do.
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So today, this little butterfly is for everyone who still thinks they are “just a caterpillar.”
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your transformation is already happening.
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You don’t have to rush it.
You don’t even have to see your own wings yet.
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Just keep becoming.
One day you’ll look back and realize…
It was never the wings that made you beautiful.
It was everything you survived before you learned to fly.
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🦋 Before the Butterfly Flew…
So perhaps the butterfly’s greatest lesson is this:
Be grateful for the cocoon.
Without it, there would never have been wings.
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Until the next whisper… 🤍
—Rajeshwari 🧿💕
© Nihshabd by Rajeshwari
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