Butterflies. These
magical flying fairies that everyone seems to giggle when they bare their presence;
making any scene more beautiful as they fly around your shoulder, kiss your
knee, land on your hand. They fly around
your body and love on your being, your existence. Why does everyone love butterflies, coo and
oooh and ahhh when they show up?
Butterflies bring beauty wherever they go because they do
nothing but spread love. They flutter
around with seemingly no other purpose but to exist and bring light and radiance. They fly over a flower and seem to change the
scene to another level of serene grandeur. Even a sight that might not be conventionally
beautiful such as a tossed aside plate of food at an outdoor restaurant… but
with a butterfly fluttering low above the crumbs, the discarded meal can look
picturesque.
Butterflies seem to capture everyone’s attention, stop them
in midst conversation for people to turn around, point and comment, “Look! Look
at that beautiful butterfly,” until the pair can tilt their head in admiration
of the flying fairies splendor.
What did the butterfly do to deserve such acclimation's? Why
do some insects have a better reputation than other? People do not oooh and ahhh at the flying
beetles with their multicolor tonation of brown shelled wings. Beetles do not enhance any scene, stop people in their tracks to pay attention to their
glory. In fact, some harmless insects elicit a strong negative reaction in people.
Is it a correlation to our cultures values of beauty? Does
the butterfly represent the elite insect… the BUG OF BEAUTY… The BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY…
Perhaps. Or possibly it IS the seemingly endless love that
exudes from this magical pixie.
