Every year in spring time swarms of butterflies arrived and we were busy catching them...... one who gets his hands on the larger and most colour full one wud be the champ ............. but i was into this not to be a champ, but to hold in my hands a most amazing flying creature (for me at least) so beautiful and delicate (that i only realized later). But the problem was we cant hold them cuz our hold on there wings, damaged them and colours from there wings stuck to my fingers .......... that was so surprising how can she leave her colour ....that was really strange. So we decided to make a big Sand Castle to keep our catch..... it was collective wisdom of all the kids there, big small and little ones too .....
Huge sand castle with walls reinforced with sticks and twigs, windows covered with polythene, a main door and a roof made of translucent polythene. It was the best we cud make. Then the frenzy started, soon the castle was full with butterflies every ones catch in it.... we were like monsters peeping inside the castle locating there owe butterfly......
By evening almost all little flyers inside castle were grounded, with there wings numb due to moisture inside the castle most of them were in-capable of flying, discolored and lying motionless.
Immediately doors where opened to rescue them but of no use hardly 2-3 of them could fly.
That was shocking while the mechanical brain kinds where busy figuring out what had happened to them and started to figure out a improved Sand Castle Design, other children could only pity the grounded flyers .
That was a important lesson learnt .. that we cant keep all that is beautiful for our self ..... we learnt to cherish beauty of creation of god the way it is in nature. Beauty of those butterflies was to be praised loved and cherished there in the gardens when they r free and flying. The principle can be extrapolated to other aspects of life much beyond butterflies................
like not every beautiful rose could be yours...
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