Remember the Caterpillar

I remember when I was young living in the country. We would see caterpillars all the time. They were green most times and creepy. No one that I can remember really liked them much. They were slow and unattractive hairy creatures. They were easily caught and trapped. We never took the time to appreciate the caterpillar for what it was – a baby butterfly.

I see the caterpillar in many of us. We appear to be much, much less than what we actually are. We accept that we are much less for good reason – we don’t see any evidence that we are anything greater than what we see. We are afflicted with feelings of helplessness psychologically. These feelings cause us to faint and stop us from going forward with a plan of progress. And truth be told many of us feel that, like the caterpillar, we have no way of moving any other way than on the bottom crawling from one place to the next.

Today, I want to talk to you about the caterpillar and our similarities to it. There are many of us who, like the caterpillar, crawl around life at the very bottom. There are a few points that I want to look at on this matter although if one were to analyze, they might find many more.

First of all the caterpillar is unattractive. There is nothing very attractive at all about the average caterpillar. When I was young we used to delight in getting rid of slimy caterpillars. There are some of us that are UNWANTED: people want to get rid of us. There is nothing beautiful about some of us and, like the caterpillar, instead of receiving invitations to stay, we are given the boot and told in many different ways to “hit the road!”. The reason is simple: you are not wanted.

You’re probably right. Had you been a celebrity of some sort, a sex pistol, a person of talent or political figure, you might have been able to attend the party for BIG SHOTS. But since you have no title: you can’t get in. No one knows you. And even with your charming personality and flashy clothes no one will admit you into their personal circle of friends. They keep you out. You are not on their level. They haven’t accepted you and you are not wanted in their clique. You are unwanted – just like a caterpillar.