Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Neverlasting Beauty
My little cousin (4 yrs. old), Paola, loves ladybugs and butterflies. She loves them so much!!! She catches them and then puts them in a jar and pokes tiny airholes for them to breathe. Paola gathers leaves, flowers, twigs, grass and water-- everything that she thinks the insects need. Sadly though, the butterflies and ladybugs do not last long. The butterfly's wings become droopy and the ladybug stops moving. Paola always cries when they die. I tell her that the ladybugs and butterflies need to be free instead of being in the jar. She concluded that if that is true, then the butterflies and ladybugs will live forever. So the next butterfly she caught, she let it fly in her room. Yet the butterfly still died. Paola did not understand why the butterfly died, for she did what I advised. I had to tell her that in the end, everything comes to a halt. I told her that even when they are not trapped inside a bottle or just free in nature, butterflies still die. Paola thought this sad, but I told her that although the butterflies have a short life, they have a beautiful one with freedom. This makes me think back to Gilgamesh, and how he learns that human beings are mortal and in the end they all have to die. Life is a neverlasting beauty.
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