I am a dreamer, a chaser, a girl who gets what she wants...or tries to anyway. I see something I like and I go after it. Life is to short to wait for it to come to me, why play games, why be subtle, if you want something, go get it.
This has been my philosophy. I see a pair of shoes I want, why wait for the sale when they might not have my size.....just get them now. Decide Iwant to run in a race.....don't stop training until I succeed. Find someone I am interested in, why play coy and wait for them to call me.....pick up the phone and ask them out. I have always been that girl, the one who just goes after it, what have I got to lose?
I have recently discovered that it may not be what I am losing, but what I am catching that is the problem. You see, I think I am catching bugs in my net. I am out there running after something beautiful and chasing the hope of finding love and happiness. At the end of the day I have caught lightening bugs. I am so busy not looking where I am going and being distracted by the bright lights these tricky lightening bugs emit, that I cannot help but to run after them. Only once I get close I realize they may be flashy, but their lights eventually run out and they leave me in the dark. Every now and then you catch a glimpse of that light again, and you get some hope that what you saw initially that attracted you is still there, but then the light goes out again and your net feels somehow emptier than before.
I wonder then, why do I keep chasing?
I am going to try something new, something very different for me. I am going to try and be the butterfly. You see, a butterfly starts out as a small caterpillar and spends time changing into what they are to become....takes its time to be ready to fly. Right now I am preparing, I am not quite ready to completly let go and spread my wings. I'm getting there.
It's a scary thing for me to imagine, but I am trying to let myself be the one who is caught. I know I am being chased. There are multiple nets out there playing in the wind trying to capture me. I have been so busy running around chasing lightening bugs that I haven't allowed anyone to have a chance to catch me. I have to learn that I don't have to always be doing the chasing. That maybe, for a change, I should let myself be caught. I am worth being chased. I have always gone after what I want because I can't imagine someone coming after me.......but if I ever stopped running for just a second I would see all the possibilities I have passed up because I have been running so fast, chasing all the wrong bugs.
This isn't easy. It's very hard actually.
But here is my shot......
I'm trying to be the butterfly.
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