Life’s cocoon
I read a thought provoking quote that gave me inspiration for my thoughts I'm about to share. And it goes like this.. If you chase butterflies, they fly away. BUT if you create a garden. They freely come to you. No chasing required. Similar to how we should lead our lives. Don't go searching for love, be love for example. Don't go searching for success in a material way. Success is a mindset built from abundance. Think of all your blessed with then more comes your way. After all thoughts become reality. Mind over matter. The caterpillar hid in the coccon, dark, lonely, shedding and transforming. Yet it came out exuding beauty with wings to fly after calling the cocoon home. Embracing the change, not fearing the unknown unlike us humans who thrive in comfort and having answers for everything. Not realizing that those answers are found through pain, trials and tribulations. You have to crawl through the darkness in order to walk towards the light. Remember transformation happens in the moments where strength and resilience is needed. Where chaos develops amidst the solitude. Failure is met in order to truly succeed. So accepting life is a contradiction with many aspects unanswered and many setbacks learning that the cocoon is the period of time we shed all that weights us down like an anchor but in order to do so we have to feel it. That's the scary part. The caterpillar never ran away from his cocoon. He thought his life was over only to learn the end was just the beginning. So nurture an environment that attracts what your seeking. Build that garden. Freeing up space in your mind and heart to let those things you desire in. Yet first to let things in, you have to let things go. Shedding in the cocoon all that no longer serves you. Gaining the patience it takes. The more we chase after what we seek or fear how lost we feel. The longer it takes to release the very thing we are crying to excape from. We go through transformations, growth, evolving and it hurts before it heals. In order to spread our wings we have to first shed what no longer serves us we can't escape the chaos, it's finding solitude within struggle and survival. We need to know ugliness to appreciate beauty. Finding a way to accept the change that is inevitable. When life feels like dead ends and you keep getting lost along the journey. It's time to mentally prepare for the toughest journey yet. The discomfort of the unknown is the very thing needed to be found.
Copyright © Melissa Seda | Year Posted 2026
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