Butterfly

There are people who needn’t love. Just in general. To say more exactly they do need love and even they need it urgently but only by recipe. But they don’t want to be necessary for someone, they don’t look for the way to love and be loved. They don’t create the atmosphere of love around them. They consider that life is perfect without this and they feel pretty happy without love. But I’m not of that kind. I need to love. I need to be loved. For me love is like a glass of good wine which is always full but can’t be empty. I love to love because it helps me in understanding of my aim of life. It fills in my life with sense.
The sense of great aim.
In my childhood there was one and the same butterfly which came to our garden every day and sat at the same flower. It was so strange because butterfly is not like dog or cat which return to the place where they eat. It is free and so beautiful!
My granny told me that butterfly is like a girl. She just feels that me admire and adore her and that we are waiting for her every day. That’s why she’s coming back to us.
I remember the beauty of her wings sparkling in the sun. It was enormously unusual. I even thought that it’s not like others.
One day I’ve got the idea to catch it and dry up so that it could stay with us not only during the summer but also for the whole autumn and winter. So that it could stay with us forever.
And sitting near the flower and enjoying the beauty of the butterfly I told my granny that I’m going to catch that beauty.
My granny whispered: “Silence, my girl.It can hear your words and then will never come back to us.” “Why?”- I asked in a loud voice. And my granny explained that butterflies are like girls. They stay with us till we love them, admire they. But as soon as they feel that the feeling was over they fly away in an attempt to find it in another place. I argued: “We love it. We’ll just dry it up to leave with us forever.” The granny laughed “Dear, what do you want to get forever – the butterfly or its beauty? You want to leave it just for yourself without sharing its beauty and individuality with others? That’s terrible because this creature was created to make us happy. So that we could love and wait for her knowing that it can fly away. And if we know that it will never leave us we won’t be afraid to lose it, and won’t love it any longer then”.
I didn’t understand anything that time. We didn’t catch the butterfly and it didn’t fly to our place the next morning.
Granny was right, the butterfly understood that our feelings towards her changed.
Butterflies are like girls. They fly away when you stop loving them. And if their wings are shot for a flight they feel such sad and upset that they die, not able to wait till the new sunny days.
Before you decide to catch a butterfly to leave it with you forever just think why do you need it? And will you still love it and consider the most beautiful creature in the world after that…..