Let’s imagine this: “I’ve been living in this house for ten years. Time to change.”
Option A: I rearrange the furniture.
Option B: I replace the furniture and repaint the walls.
Option C: I rebuild the entire house—but keep the same old furniture because it’s expensive and sentimental.
Option D: I tear down the old house and rebuild it completely. I change the layout, let the walls breathe, open up the windows. I want sunlight to flood in every morning and evening.
Which of these is real transformation?
Options A to C may offer the illusion of change—but at their core, they remain attached to the old. Sentimentality. Familiarity. Comfort. True transformation, like the butterfly’s, requires letting go. Dismantling the old to make space for the new. It demands courage to part with what we’ve clung to—even if it was once beautiful or hard-earned.
The Butterfly’s Lesson
In the life of a butterfly, every stage is different: From egg, to caterpillar, to chrysalis, and finally—a butterfly. But where does the real transformation happen? In the chrysalis? Or when the butterfly breaks free and spreads its wings? The truth is—transformation is not complete until there is flight.
Until the butterfly tears through the walls of its former self and soars.
Of Masks and Metamorphosis
We often hide behind masks—layers we’ve built over time, hoping the world won’t see who we really are. These masks become our chrysalis: protective, concealing, sometimes necessary.
But the real transformation happens when we shed them. When we break through those walls—of fear, of inherited beliefs, of outdated perceptions—and dare to be free.
What are those walls made of?
Our learned behaviors.
Our unexamined thoughts.
Our inherited teachings.
Our gurus.
Our readings.
Our past wounds.
To be free is to break through those walls.
To spread your wings.
To fly.
Freedom is when there is nothing to lose.
When fear no longer stops you.
Not even fear of the very enemy who once hurt you
