The Cocoon of Embrace: The only Way to Go Up

The Cocoon of Embrace: The Only Way to Go Up

“Hope for the Flowers” is a story about a caterpillar, Stripe, who was born in this world and lived a normal life as expected from a caterpillar: eating and growing bigger. However, he became tired of doing such routine over and over again and thought that there must be something more to life. So he left the tree which served as his home from the very start and went out to the world to wander. Yes, he was fascinated with things he saw, but he was unsatisfied, until he found a caterpillar pillar rising up the sky with the top impossible to see. He wanted to go up also and reach the peak of the pillar, and that goal became a frustration. He was eager to reach that goal: the top.

Stripe has a goal: to reach the top of the pillar, and that makes him similar to each one of us. We have a particular goal in life: to attain perfect happiness. Just like Stripe, who gets tired of his everyday routine, we also get tired of what we keep on doing and thinks that there must be something more to life out there. We wanted to go out and discover, to find out something interesting, to find the most perfect thing that would satisfy us. Well in this case, the most perfect material thing, because once we get that thing, we would still eventually be unsatisfied, just like Stripe when he found things that was fascinating, yet unsatisfying.

The most perfect goal would be perfect happiness, and just like what stripe thought, we will find the perfect happiness on the top, up there where we came from, up there where we always wanted to be: beside God, in the arms that nurtured us from the very beginning.

So Stripe joined the caterpillar pillar, pushing another caterpillar, stepping on another, with that goal in mind: the top. But just like anybody else, Stripe doesn’t know what’s at the top, he’s not sure what is exactly at the top, but one thing’s for sure: whatever that’s up there, he would be very happy to find out.

Like every one of us, we wanted to go up there, but of course, at the first glance one wouldn’t realize how. He would be in haste to achieve it, never stopping first to think. We do things, and we think that what we do is the good way to achieve that goal. We become oblivion that there is a single way given to us to achieve that goal. Many know that way and follow it, but others are ignorant. However, there are others who know it but they act as if they don’t know that way. They walk in a road different from that road given to us. Life would be easy if we would only follow that road readily given to us by God Himself.

Stripe met Yellow on his way up. He somehow fell in love with Yellow and they decided to go back down to where they came from and live every day with each other, they decided to go