From a caterpillar to a butterfly. The process from something small to something beautiful can be messy. Like butterflies, we humans go through a messy transition from a child to an adult. Like a caterpillar, human children are innocent and small. They eat a lot and grow bigger every day. Like a caterpillar children are always moving towards their transition to adulthood. At the end of their caterpillar stage they wrap themselves in a cocoon where things get messy. As teenagers, humans wrap themselves in the comfort of peer approval, of acceptance from others, and conform to society. It's a mess. Teenagers, as cocoons don't exactly know what form they will be in. When a caterpillar is in their cocoon they are literally a goo, not really looking like anything. Like the cocoon teens don't know who they are yet, but once they emerge out of it they will be a beautiful butterfly who loves themselves for who they are.
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AuthorEmma Schroeder is 17 years old, a senior at Taylorsville High School, and lives in Taylorsville, UT. Archives
November 2015
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