Butterfly.. Do you ever see yourself in an… | by Mahek Gada

Do you ever see yourself in an inanimate object?

My sister once bought me this phone charm for from a trip and it was very pretty. Little flowers, one cute bow, a pretty butterfly… I put hung on my phone case.

I kept it on for a long time, I cherished it but maybe I was not careful enough because one day I saw one of its wings crack and I git scared.

It was something of value to me, my sister bought it for me as a gift…

I tried to to keep it together but nothing really worked and and out of curiosity I picked at it a few times. Then one day it just broke, one of the wings of my butterfly broke.

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Maybe it was my fault as I was careless with it. Maybe the world was too rough for something that precious. I held the wing in one hand, the charm in the other and got a sense of déjà vu.

It was a feeling I had felt before. Like the time I had let go of my passion… My dreams. Killing them, giving up on them. Thinking they were too big for me or out of reach.

I couldn’t find a way to fix the charm. I didn’t know where to store that broken wing when there was no safe place around me, not even my own home and I kept forgetting to glue the wing back to the butterfly.

It was up to me to take that action. To keep the wing safe. To go out and find the right glue and be gentle with it as I fix it. Heal that butterfly and maybe myself.

And if I don’t? If i can’t find the glue? If I can’t keep it safe? If I let doubt rule my decisions?

What would you have done in my place? Let fear be in the driver’s seat? Do you dare to make the same mistake I did? Be stuck in a “What if” cycle?

Till this day I have the broken wing. The butterfly still has three wings.

I think it will survive.

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