This is the Continuation of the series, “It’s not the end, Butterfly“. If you haven’t read the first post I would recommend you touching on that one before you proceed on. You can find it by clicking on Butterfly… duh, what else? 
I’ll begin with the last three paragraphs of that post.
I’ve always had a passion for writing. I get it from my mother actually. When she passed away I acquired all of her writings; four spiral notebooks and loose leaf pages of her thoughts and feelings. Within her life pages of thoughts and feelings, she wrote me a letter, that she never sent off to me. This letter would change me in ways that I could never have imagined.
Imagine if you will, you receive a letter from your mother who had just passed away, and it seemed she had just written it to you; talking directly to you in the here and now.
It was another nudge for me to start my first blog. I had often asked her why she’d chosen a life of mediocrity when she had such a gift inside of her. It would actually make me so upset knowing that she had the gift and wasn’t using it. Her answer to my question would be,“I am only a vessel that God used to bring you into the world. You will use my gift to change your world.”
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ~R. Buckminster Fuller
Once I was a Caterpillar…
The funny thing about how these past four or so years have transpired for me is that everything seems to fit in like the metamorphisis of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.
You see, the stages of the butterfly life cycle include: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. I’d like to think of the adult part as the full Release!
Everything in the life of butterfly within its cycle screams purpose and destiny. From the beginning of the cycle, an adult butterfly will lay it’s egg or eggs, depending on the species, on a leaf or petal. It lays it there because whenever the egg hatches it will use that leaf or petal as food for it’s nourishment.
Female butterflies have been know to be very picky about where they lay their eggs. Partly because when the egg hatches; the caterpillar’s sole purpose is to eat as much grub as it can. Caterpillars are as picky of eaters as the adult butterfly is of where the egg will be laid.
Now, this is where it gets interesting to me. When the caterpillar is born it has no idea of why it was laid on that particular leaf. All it knows is that it’s alone and it’s hungry. I can relate to this because I was born, left alone (not literally, figuratively speaking), and I was hungry for Life. There just wasn’t anyone around to teach how to truly live.
I didn’t have the examples that other’s would have to get the “better life” that we’re often taught to make for ourselves. I do not take for granted the lessons I did receive, because they were just as valuable as the one’s I would’ve gotten had the people that taught me my lessons, known for themselves how to achieve. Oprah said this week in her Life Class, “When you know better, you do better.” Those that taught me how to live didn’t know how to do any better than what they had been taught.
So please don’t think that I’m feeling sorry for myself by sharing this part of my life with you, because that’s just simply not the case. Today, I know that the purpose in life of my life pages, formed and shaped my destiny. I’m sharing this series with each of you, because it was my life pages that made me who I am. And it’s my belief that they will help others to cope with theirs. Had I not gone through every single thing that I went through, there would be no Releasing Me Today! It was all apart of my purpose and destiny. Just like everything that you’re going through in your life is apart of who you were meant to be.
We have to see ourselves much like the caterpillar and understand that there simply are no mistakes in our life pages. None! Despite what we’ve been told, may have heard, or come to believe ourselves; you are exactly where you were meant to be. Make no mistake about that.
Hearing Intuition When Destiny is Speaking
I’m currently reading a book right now that my dear friend and fellow blogger, Jk Allen gave to me as a gift to read. The name of the book is called 180: Climbing the Two Ladders of Inner Strength and Outer Freedom. It’s written by another fellow blogger by the name of Rob White. I definitely recommend you read it. It’s an awesome book!
The book itself is a ninety day program that will have you break through to an extraordinary new life. I got that from Rob’s Website, Mind Adventure. Rob will have you looking at life with a pair of brand new eyes with his insights and awesome approach to life.
Although I am only partly through the book, I felt the purpose and need for me to read this book at this point in my life this morning. The reason I say this is because, I began writing this series of “It’s Not the End, Butterfly!” almost a week ago; I was going to write it and leave it as a draft until I was ready to post it. Which wasn’t going to be anytime soon, I assure you. Something in me kept pushing me to post it now. I don’t know why, I didn’t question it, partly because I’m getting a lot better about listening to my instincts. Something I think that has come with the whole “rock bottom” thing.
Coincidentally, yesterday’s program was titled Green Mush. I won’t go into great detail about Green Mush, you’ll have to look into the pages of this masterpiece to grip why this was so incredibly right on point with this series. I will say this though, there is a quote that Rob stated in this section that says, “Handling change is a necessary rite of passage toward awakening total intelligence.” Powerful stuff, right? Yes! Get the book, I’m telling you… you will not be disappointed.
Before I get ahead of myself, let’s head back to the caterpillar. Shall we?
The Challenges
Life comes with challenges. They’re bound to happen. Oftentimes when we are going through those challenges we have no clue about what they mean. All we gather from them is the discomfort that they sometimes seem to cause us. Most of which, we’re simply not meant to know what they mean at the time.
There’s not much difference in the challenges that caterpillars face. When a caterpillar is born it is born with a skin that isn’t fully mature. With it being a devourer of food most of it’s life, the food actually helps the caterpillar to form a second layer of skin underneath it’s softer skin. Powerful stuff already, isn’t it?
When the time is right, and not a moment sooner, the caterpillar will shed it’s first layer of old, softer skin; this occurs in order to form a newer, thicker layer of skin. The process is properly called Molting. The caterpillar goes through this process an excess of five times. Each time it takes a little longer than the first.
Do you know what I find most amazing about the Molting Stage? The whole point of the Molting Stage is for the caterpillar to grow into it’s new thicker skin. That’s five stages of eating, growing new skin under the older skin, shedding that skin, and growing into the next skin. Talk about growing thick skin! Jeez!
I can imagine that by this time the caterpillar is thinking that it is on it’s way out. Death is surely knocking on it’s door! Each time it gets familiar with it’s brand new skin, it loses it; only to be covered with brand new thicker skin.
I pictured when the caterpillar is in it’s newer skin and crawling around with it’s other friendly caterpillars (that’s just a metaphor, entertain me on this one) the other caterpillars are going through the same process, but they’re looking at him and saying, “Hey, there’s something different about you… I can’t quite put my finger on it. Are you new?”
And the caterpillar looks back at them and says, “I don’t know… something’s not right… something is definitely off with me. I think this is the end.”
The End? Uh, I don’t think so!
After the fourth Molting Stage, the caterpillar goes through the change once more. This time I’m thinking it’s the most petrifying of all the stages to it. After what seems like a longtime in caterpillar years of changes and inner defeats, the caterpillar will go to shed his fourth and final layer and notice a change a little bit different than the last several changes that it’s been experiencing. From the inside out the skin begins to form a harden shell. I’m pretty sure that the caterpillar is thinking that this is sort of like a caterpillar casket or something.
He has spent all his life thinking that he was born hungry. Everything he’s eaten has never fulfilled him, never satisfied that burning urge to be who it thinks it was meant to be. Much like the feeling of defeat and hopelessness I felt over the last several years.
Much like the judgement those around me have past without taking notice of the process, I sure he heard his naysayers say, “Oh, he’s finished” “No, he’s wasting his life away, sitting in that shell”. Despite what it looks like from the outside, the caterpillar is not resting…. I am not resting! It’s maturing and getting ready for its purpose in life.
What he couldn’t see before that last Molting Stage, was that his wings were actually forming under his skin. Now, while he lays in the harden shell metamorphosis has begun to take place. Antennas are sprouting from it’s head, the mouthparts that once used to chew leaves is now being transformed into sucking mouthparts, wings are fully formed, and the body is now that of an adult butterfly.
Even after the butterfly emerges from it’s harden shell, it’ll still be a while until it dries it’s wings and teaches itself how to fly. The cycle is never completely finished until it sets sail and feel the wind beneath it’s wings. After this is done, the butterfly will softly hear a voice from heaven whisper, “See… I told you it’s not the end, Butterfly!”
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. ~Andre Gide
Now, I’m a Butterfly
My life has been a replicate much like the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly. The stages that seem to have been killing me on the inside… and on the outside, where simply stages in my life that I had to go through. They were kind of like my Human Molting stages.
Before my Molting stages started happening, life was being spent still in the egg of the unknown. When I hatched into my comfort zone, I was literally hungry for something else. Constantly searching for whatever it was. For what? I had no earthly idea. All I knew is that the life I was living wasn’t the one that was meant for me. That’s often the case though for those of us that know that we aren’t fulfilling our purpose in life.
When I started blogging is when I started shedding away the soft skin. When you start to do this, a few things happen. You have to be smart and watch for other things that will arise to break that soft shell. It’ll take that smallest thing… anything really, to do this. That’s why when all of the loss, the questions, everything that had happen to me in my life started happening; my life suddenly began to make sense. My hard skin was maturing under the soft skin. So that once I began to shed that first layer of soft skin, I had begin to fully grow into that first layer of hard skin… thicker skin.
I could stand a little bit more, I could soar a little bit higher, I could see my purpose and my destiny happening right before my eyes.
I was still susceptible to the hurt, trauma, and emotions that sure to come that will try to tear into my soft skin, but the soft skin is no longer there. Hitting rock bottom has formed a harder shell than I could have ever imagined. Through my Molting Stage I learned some very valuable lessons though. Here’s a few things that I learned.
Lessons In the Human Molting Stage
- The end is simply that, the end. You’ll certainly know when it arrives. If you’re still breathing, blood running warm in your veins, then guess what… it’s not the end.
- When something is taken from you, it wasn’t yours to begin with. The universe is aware of what you need and during your Molting stage, it will provide it to you.
- The Molting Stage is only temporary. Like most things in life it will come to an end. It’s important to try and stay as positive as you possible can during this cycle. Having a sulky attitude only prolongs the stage. Hence, almost five years for me.
- Never try to drown the Molting Stage with outside substance, it will deepen whatever feelings you are already feeling at that time. If your sad, it will only heighten that sadness.
- Consider that the universe is purging you of the things and people that won’t appreciate you once you have fully grown into who you were meant to be. It goes back to that saying about people, A season, a reason, and a lifetime. All you have to do is sit back and let destiny play it’s hand. What is meant to be, will certainly be.
- When things are shedding off all around you, and nothing seems to be going your way, and the hunger for life seems to be overwhelmingly painful; it might be that the Creator is pushing you into your destiny… into your purpose in life. Don’t fight it… It’s not the end, butterfly! In time the world will see you as God saw you from the beginning.
Well Ladies and Gents, I hope you’ve been enjoying the “It’s Not the End, Butterfly!” Series. If you have please leave me your feedback on what you thought about what you’ve read thus far. You know that I’m always interested in hearing from you.
Please share it with others, by tweeting it, sharing it, or +1 it! Help me to get the word out that it’s not the end, no matter what it looks like. I’m excited about what’s taking place here at Releasing Me Today, and I want to share my excitement with others. So please feel free to push those tweet buttons and “Like” buttons, sharing these post on the many different platforms of social media that you’re apart of. It only takes a few seconds to do so. And I’ll be ever so grateful for your help to spread the word of what’s going on here at Releasing Me Today.
This is my path that I feel I was meant to take, and in order for me to proceed further, I need your help. So share away!
May you find your Release and Master the day’s ahead!
Can you relate to this series? Have you ever felt like you were going through changes, just to come to the realization that the changes were forming you into a butterfly… pushing you towards your destiny? Share your Release with me.
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hey little butterfly, this is awesome. i feel like the end is not the very end but the end of what you call a life page. I can relate to that and moving here to Georgia, meant that my life in Pa. had it ended its course and now, Georgia is my caterpillar. I am loving the series, keep writing you are growing into that butterfly.
Hey Angela!! Welcome to the Release, my friend!
This little butterfly is super glad that you made it over here… and you left me your feed back as well! Look at who’s being all AWESOME and stuff!!!
You’re absolutely right, about life isn’t over until those life pages have ended! We never know what the struggle in our lives truly mean, all we can do is continue to move forward and allow the pages to turn. Like any book, if we keep revisiting the pages of the past and/or just stay there, we’ll never get to the end of the book. And that’s simply the best part about the entire process… the true end. I’m glad that you’re here in Georgia too, little caterpillar. If life wasn’t going in the forward position in PA, than here is where you needed to be.
I wish you all the best while you’re here and I’m sure we’ll be in contact.
May you find your Release and Master the days ahead, Chica! Peace and blessings.
What a lovely post! I honestly wish that everyone that is going through a difficult period could read this…perhaps you can send it Huffington Post?
In my own life I’m really trying to keep up the hope. It’s words like these that keep me going.
Wow! Thank you Dianne! I really appreciate you taking the time to read both of this series. It means the world to me.
I have been trying to learn the different routes that I should take to get my work seen, so I may just take you up on that, sending this series to the Post. And several other prospects.
Here’s the thing about hope though, at least it has been for me, it’s in there and no matter what even if you only have a little iddy biddy piece of it; that sometimes is enough to get you through the struggle. I didn’t think at the time that I was strong enough to endure what I was going through. What worked for me, was that I started paying attention to what I put in and what I sent out. I became mindful that my words and thoughts where hindering me, more than they were helping me. So those two things were the first things about myself that I set out to change.
I stopped saying words like, “I think I can…”, “I can’t”, “I’ll try”; and started using more powerful and affirmative words like “I can”, “I am”, “I will”.
I heard someone say once, “In order to change my world around me, I have to see it differently and think of it differently.” It was hard work and I had to train myself to do it everyday, but it paid off.
In less than six months time, I’ve done more in those six months, than I have done in my entire life! And it started in my mind.
If I can do it… I know you can too.
I hope that you come back and pay me a visit more often, I’m super glad we’re connected! I believe that everything, even chance meetings, happen for a reason.
May you find your Release and Master the day’s ahead of you!
Nice comparison to the caterpillar and butterfly Deeone!
Yes, I think all of us undergo changes in our lives and any change undertaken positively will always do us good. The post beautifully describes the various stages of the caterpillar before it turns into a butterfly- that development is remarkable.
Similarly, our lives keep changing from what it is now to what it becomes, and we ourselves are responsible to bring about that changes in our destiny.
Thanks for sharing
Good day Harleena, Thank you so much for reading the finale of this series and for your wonderfully kind remarks. .
As I was researching it, I kept getting more and more excited as I read up on the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly. The purpose behind it just blew my mind! I couldn’t believe it that it was so aligned with what I had endured in my own life. I knew I had to do a post on it. I’ve also since seen the reason behind why I needed to write this and post this now.
Life is a funny thing. That it continuously sends us hints and clues as to what we need to do in our lives, is phenomenal to me.
If we act upon those areas and listen to our intuition, we will be able to be even more responsible for changing our lives and going after our destiny.
Your remarks were inspiring to me, as they always are. They encourage me to keep going… keep digging… and keep growing.
Thank you friend for sharing your feedback with me. It truly is always a pleasure.
Wishing you a most wonderful weekend ahead!
Hi Deeone.
I am bursting with things to say and yet I am overcome and can’t find the words. This post has connected so deeply in so many ways.
My Grandmother was in my inspiration as a child. I was always the kid that questioned, had different ideas and didn’t follow the crowd. She ‘got’ me. I felt understood, loved and accepted. When she passed I really was lost. My family does not understand my journey and they judge. I struggled and still do with trying to find acceptance. For years I felt really lost and alone which I suppose is why when you wrote…
“He has spent all his life thinking that he was born hungry. Everything he’s eaten has never fulfilled him, never satisfied that burning urge to be who it thinks it was meant to be. Much like the feeling of defeat and hopelessness I felt over the last several years.”
…it was as if you were writing from inside my own heart and story. I don’t know (although I bet you can) if you can understand the kind of joy that comes from knowing there are people who understand and ‘get’ this feeling. I have been so blessed this last few years to encounter more and more people who have walked where I am walking, understand the struggle and support my quest for self awareness and finding my purpose. It allows my heart to release a great deal of the pain and lonliness that it’s been holding onto for so long.
This is an incredible piece of writing from your heart. You clearly have become a strong person to share something like this so openly. I can only imagine how you must feel reading your mothers words.
The changes we go through can often require great stuggles. I am in the midst of a very big life lesson; in my heart I know this but at times I have a hard time letting go to let the lesson in. Your post has renewed my strength, touched my heart and moved my soul.
You truly are a gift as you mother said. Quite the butterfly stepping off the leaf to soar off in the wind.
Thank you Deeone….truly.
Bonnie, I can’t express how grateful I am that you are apart of my life. I really appreciate you opening your heart and your feelings here on RMT. It means more to me than you may ever know.
You touched me just as much as this post did for you. I was literally allowing the tears to flow as I read your inspiring comment.
I can relate with you in every aspect of your comment. Many of your feelings were my own that you so freely expressed here. Here’s the thing that I’m learning about these type of moments, many people experience these feelings in their life, just like us. Some people allow those feelings to keep them in a horribly bitter place that control their daily lives and make their living experience here on this earth a living hell. While others use those emotions, feelings, and experiences to allow them to tap into their fullest potential and life’s purpose. It takes some people a little longer than other’s, but I believe it takes some of us, like me, a little bit longer to tap into the lesson we receive in life because we simply don’t have anyone in our lives that actually tell us what to do with those type of feelings. Then on top of that, we don’t allow ourselves to know that we are fully equipped and capable of tapping into it that inner strength.
You know something else, if we were truly honest with ourselves and look back over our lives; what we would see is that our strength has gotten us to the point we are in our lives. It might not be where we would like to be, but the story isn’t over. We’re still writing our life pages. That’s important to take into consideration. Life is waiting on us to forgive ourselves for not being where we think we should be, and accept the place that we’re at with the fullest belief that we will continue to simply move forward.
I understand wholeheartedly what you mean when you said, “…it was as if you were writing from inside my own heart and story. I don’t know (although I bet you can) if you can understand the kind of joy that comes from knowing there are people who understand and ‘get’ this feeling.”
This is the very reason I started Releasing Me Today. I knew there were a lot of people out there in the world that were just like me, who were wondering if there was anyone else. There is. And I hope that this website will eventually prove that. The entire birthing of “The Release” has been such a powerful experience for me (and other’s I’m sure) that I know that this is exactly what I was meant to do. When I get feedback and comments such as the one you’ve shared today, I understand more about my purpose and destiny than I have ever understood before starting my blogging journey.
I also know that nothing… absolutely not one single thing, happens by chance. It’s not coincidental that we have been connected, and I don’t ever take it for granted at all. I’m grateful for ever season, reason, and lifetime friendship and relationship that presents itself to me, because I know that the friendships have happened for a reason. Today, from your comment, I’m even more aware of that fact than ever. You are a blessing to others! Know that. Own that!
Do you want to know what gets me out of bed in the morning and allows me to devote my days to this website and promoting it? Each morning when I meditate, I pray that I am fully prepared to know the right thing to say and/or do for that person that I may affect that particular day. I’m so glad to know that this post has done that for you today.
I truly thank you for being Bonnie Copeland. There simply isn’t another one out there like you. As you continue to grow into fully knowing and loving her, I wish nothing but blessing in your direction.
I thank you for each of your kind remarks about me and my gift that I fine tuning daily to be a encouragement to others. I know that I still have so much more growth to do, but it’s this type of encouragement that makes it all worthwhile.
I am truly ready for my wings to meet the wind that will carry me to my destiny, but I also know that it’s all in timing. However, the timing is not in my control, what is in my control is to constantly be growing into my gift and sharing it with the world.
Whatever your big life lesson is, my advice would be for you to listen to your heart, my dear. The heart will never steer you in the wrong direction. I’m this post has renewed, touched, and moved you. You my friend, on today, have experienced the release. Congrats!
Ah Deeone, your response makes my heart smile.
And it’s for that very reason that I my heart is smiling as well.
Love it! Great post, Deeone. Thanks for sharing your process it really helps us to relate and see our own lives in a different way.
I’m glad you’re enjoying the series, my friend. I’ve been working on a finale to it this weekend, so I hope that you decide to come back and check that out as well.
All the best to you! Have a great week ahead.
Hi Deeone,
I think that many of us are going through this stage now. We need to catch up consciously to where we need to be.
It seems that our mind needs to know what is happening with us because there is so much bizarre happenings going on now Not only with us as individuals but with the whole world.
You’re absolutely right, Justin.
The world is changing before our eyes, and we sometimes get a bit overwhelmed with the changes that we face in our personal lives because of it.
I am becoming aware that there are many things that occur in our lives that just aren’t meant for us to know their meanings. At least not right now. We may just have to go through certain situations simply for the experience that the situation offers to us. Everything is tied somehow to our destiny. I think for now, that’s enough for me. What will be, will just have to be.
Thank you again for checking out these post, Justin. I hope you had an enjoyable weekend, and that you have equally enjoyable week ahead.
Hi Deeone,
I am really touched by your mother’s comment about her purpose in life. It was so noble of her to let you be the fulfillment of her gift. I think all mothers are like that. My wife current is like throwing all her energy in simply ensuring our kids will succeed next time. And it is a process that never ends once they have kids. Aren’t we so glad.
Coincidentally while experiencing these few posts of yours on butterfly, my wife just bought two caterpillars from a local farm. They are for my children’s education on the life stages of a butterfly. They are damn intrigued and looks at the little creatures everyday with amazement. Right now, they are in the cocoon stage. We are all awaiting the final stage to come. So exciting.
I think this butterfly analogy that you are describing is such a powerful metaphor for life. Our struggles are really necessary to make us a flying person next time. I cannot understand how I got myself to this state of distress. I can only hold on to the future hope that it is for the better. I will take your advice on not feeling depressed too much while in this state of molting so that things will pass faster and we can emerge stronger.
It is most inspiring post for someone in my current state. My struggles and yours are quite similar in that sense.
Hello Jimmy and Welcome to the Release!
Before I respond to your comment, I really want to thank you for sharing your personal experience with me. It has literally moved me to tears this morning. So again, I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your releasing moment with me.
To me, life has a way of confirming things to us, showing us that we are not alone in the feelings and emotions that circumstances causes us to feel. A lot of times we keep them inside of us out of fear that we may be seen as weak to our loved ones and society. That’s the reason I started, Releasing Me Today. Holding all of these type of emotions and feelings in I have found to do more harm than good.
More than ever before, this series has allowed me to release and I’m seeing that it is doing the same for other’s, such as yourself. It’s amazing to watch something that I think is so much bigger than what I had in mind unfold itself to me.
Our destiny is HUGE, my friend. And what I’ve learned over time in my life is that sometimes what we want isn’t what destiny has in mind for us. Your wife is right to groom your children in a way that supercedes the life that the both of you might have had; and you’re 100% right that well be passed on further than either of you can possibly imagine. It’s important to keep in mind though, that each of your stories… the both of your life pages, haven’t even begun to being finished written. There’s still so much more that will be added, and when you remain totally positive in spirit and in attitude that’s where you’ll see life unfold for you. At least that’s what I believe.
So be encouraged my friend, there’s still more to come. 
I find it very fascinating that you all are actually watching the cycle of the butterfly taking place! That is so freaking awesome!!
When I read that part of your comment my emotions seemed to have burst wide open, and the tears that I was attempting to hold back, began to freely fall. They weren’t tears of sorrow or sadness; they were of happiness, joy, and an overwhelming peace that happened to come over me.
It’s no coincidence that your wife made the purchase and now your family is watching the stages take place. It’s no coincidence that I have written this series about the stages. And then, to have you come across this exact post, and leave that comment….. No, my friend, that has purpose and destiny written all over it.
I will definitely be looking for you on Twitter and Facebook, I’d love to see the pictures of the stages that have taken place thus far; if you have shared any of the moments. That’s so freaking cool! 
This truly has been an overwhelming series for me. There has been so many confirmations taking place just from these two post. So much so that I have begun to write a finale to the series. I thought I would have it finished last night, but this morning I’m no where close to being finished. I hope to be though at some point this morning.
There are times when the struggles of life happen and leave us wondering, “What happened? How in the world did I get here at this place in my life?” I am coming to think in those moments we should look around us and pay very close attention to every single thing that’s happening. In the struggle, somewhere in the depths of the fibers of our hardships, there lies a lesson. It might be huge, or it could be a very simple one, but a lesson nonetheless. I can now share with other’s in going through my own; don’t get distracted by what the struggles and hardships appear to be. They are temporary… they will pass and one day be only a memory of what you made it through. Pay more attention to the people that come into your life during these moments. Enjoy your family (your wife and kids) that need to know that you appreciate them. Make peace with yourself that your molting stage is making you better than you ever could have even imagined.
As I told my two younger brothers, on the day that we had our mother’s memorial service, you must know it as well, brother; “What doesn’t kill us, is only going to make us stronger.”
Here’s to our strength building and molting stage! Cheers mate! Hope you have an amazing week ahead.
Like the look Deeone and enjoy the analogy. All creatures seem to know their purpose. It is only us humans who make it a challenge to find and live our purpose. If only we stopped trying so hard and did what is natural, feels good and supports those around us we would have a world that would be AWESOME.
Keep writing. Looking forward to your books – see you inspiring many people with your story telling ability
Hey there Roberta!
How are you? Thanks so much for stopping in and reading the post. Also, for the compliment on the new look of the website. You actually crossed my mind when I made the changes to it. I hope it’s much easier for you to read it now.
Your comment about how all the other creatures know their purpose, is SO VERY true! I often find myself looking around at nature and wondering why that’s the case. How is it that they know exactly what they were meant to do and we spend endless, at times effortless amounts of time and energy, trying to figure out our purpose in this world. I know now though that you are very right about doing what feels good and what comes natural for us. I think that’s why I started blogging in the first place. I’m beginning to think though that the book is more the direction I should be going. I may need to change where I place my focus these days. We’ll see how it goes.
Thank you so much for stopping in. It’s always a pleasure.
What a wonderful post-
truly talented writer.
Keep it up.
Look forward to more posts.
Hello Rochelle and Welcome to the Release!
I’m excited to have you here. Thank you so much for those kind remarks, Rochelle. It is very encouraging to get such comments, especially at this point in my life; when I am literally ready to allow those wings of mine to flutter.
You are too sweet. Glad that you enjoyed this post, and I hope to see you over here at the release again soon.
Have an awesome week ahead!
When I started reading your article, my mind immediately jumped to the “Green Mush” … only to see that you mention it by name! What a great delight for me to see that you are taking it to heart, Deeone. You are truly a transformational figure and it has given me great pleasure and inspiration to have connected with you. Blessings…
Rob, your book has truly been a blessing to me. I start each morning reading it and meditating before I do anything else. I am truly embracing the changes that are taking place in my life, in every aspect and area in my life. I once fought against change and wanted no parts of it. I have since learned that change comes to make us better individuals. It’s for that reason I know that I’m better than I’ve ever been in my life, and that my life is now just beginning. It’s a full rebirth that’s taking place within me. I don’t worry any more about the past or the future. The past is gone, and my future as bright as it is, will make room for itself. I am doing what is absolutely necessary to prepare for it, right now in the present. Thank you for sharing the “180″ experience with the world and with me. I’m blessed that Jk thought of me enough to share this “180″ experience with me. My “180″ has begun.
Thanks for taking a look at this post! It means the world to me that you did. All the best to you, my friend.
Deeone,
I can’t tell you how great it is to hear your progress in the making. Absolutely amazing. Your willingness to share is out of this world.
What you shared about the Caterpillar’s molting process is a great analogy/metaphor. I love it. And as you shared, it’s only temporary, and we hold the key that may prolong the process…with a bad attitude.
Wonderful stuff here Deeone.
Thank you for inspiring the world!
Hey there Jk!
If I told you that you are a great inspiration to that progress, you’d probably shrug it off. But, that’s the truth of the matter, my friend. I have a handful of people in my life right now, that continuously, consistently, inspire me to be the absolute very best that I can possibly be. You have truly went beyond that call of duty as a blogger, and I’m glad to be able to say that you are my friend.
I knew when I started Releasing Me Today that there would be a lot of letting go, but I had no idea of the growth that would occur because of it. All I know is that it is well overdue. I could tell you some stories man, beyond the ones we’ve already discussed. I have even reached a point where that those things don’t even bother me anymore. Growth is an understatement. Like I told Rob this morning, I’m doing a full “180″. And man! It feels SO freaking GOOD!!
<——That's my Kool-Aid smile!
Thanks for the convos and the support man. You truly have no idea how much you have helped this process along. I wish you all the best man!
Hi Deeone,
I had to make sure I read part two before moving on to the final post. What a wonderful analogy of you and the butterfly. Ah heck, I always saw you as someone who has already spread his wings.
I love how you share with us the way we are really like the butterfly. I can look back on my own life and see so many stages I had to go through to get to where I am and at the time, I had no idea how I would ever get to the other side. I always knew God wouldn’t let me down, I just couldn’t see how this could really be necessary at the time.
I’ve always loved Maya Angelo’s quote, “when you know better you do better” which I use a lot as well. So very true!
Thanks for sharing this with us and now I need to finish reading your wonderful story. You are truly amazing Deeone. I hope you know that!
~Adrienne
Hi Adrienne!
I really thank you for taking the time to read them both, my friend. I know they’re both kind of lengthy, so that you’re reading them both means a lot to me. I also thank you for the very kind compliments.
You truly have shared a great big smile with me today.
The only thing I tried to do with this post was to make it as universal as I possibly could. I wanted anyone who has ever had a rough patch in their lives to be able to relate to the butterfly metaphor. And I thank you for sharing with me that you could. I can actually remember at one point at one point in my meantime moment, I had begun to lose my faith in God and in his people, because it seemed they were the ones that were constantly kicking me while I was down. But like you said in your comment, it was never Him that let me down, I had to really know that and trust Him that he would bring me to where he wanted me to be in his timing.
Thank you ever so much for your kindness, again it’s very much appreciated.
Btw, you’re pretty amazing yourself.
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