I see this too, Cedar. Actually, I was referring to a post, that referenced the butterfly emerging from the cocoon and someone trying to help the butterfly- with enabling. The person saw the butterfly struggling and helped to tear the cocoon open. The wings were not ripped, but did not develop well, because butterflies need to struggle to break out of the cocoon for the wings to develop properly for flight.
I was seeing it in that sense. That what ever we have gone through, painful or pleasant, is a part of our lives, a part of what shapes us. We do not have control over what happens to us, but we do have control of how we choose to view it.
Perhaps, when we were younger, it made us feel lesser, than, that we didn't matter, it restricted our growth? Like a cocoon?
In the struggle to break free from the cocoon, looking back at the remnants of it, we can choose how we see those pieces.
We can't change what happened to us. We can change how we see it.
The past, a lesson. The present, a gift. The future unknown.
leafy
