| Hope for the flowers is a book by Trina Paulus. A story that children will love and adults could definitely learn from. Its story started from a striped caterpillar hatched out of an egg on a leaf. After consuming all of the leaf where he was born, Stripe decided to explore his surroundings. From here he discovered a pile of other caterpillars moving onto a pillar of caterpillars. Stripe decided to follow the pile which he found to be moving towards the top. Everybody was pushing onto anybody, pushing themselves onto the top hurt others because they stepped onto their heads, shoulders etc. It was way too painful to reach for the top, at this point Stripe suddenly saw a yellow caterpillar who was being violently pushed by the other caterpillars.Stripe and yellow at that instant felt the connection between them and decided to go down the pillar and lived together. Kissing, hugging and eating the whole time together and enjoying each others company. And lo, one day Stripe realized that there might be something more to life than doing these things with Yellow. Hence, Stripe decided to leave Yellow behind to accomplished his unfinished business of reaching for the top of the pillar. This time he promised to himself that he will never be distracted again. While pushing himself onto the pillar, suddenly there was this Yellow insect flying around him and trying to gesture something onto him. Stripe considered this as plain distraction and so continued to push himself up the pillar. Just below the top of the pillar he heard some caterpillars exclaimed that there was actually nothing at the top of the pillar. Stripe did not lose his enthusiasm but considered this as more of a challenge.Upon reaching for the top, Stripe was surprised to see that indeed nothing was at the top. He even discovered that there are hundreds of Caterpillar pillar around similar to what they have now. Stripe got frustrated and decided to go down the pillar. At the foot of the pillar, Stripe saw this flying insect again as it gestures something onto him. Nothing matters now anyway especially that Yellow was no longer with him. And so, Stripe follow what was being shown unto him by that yellow flying insect. He wove and wove this sticky substance around his body until he was completely covered. For a while Stripe was nowhere in sight until one day, lo and behold, Stripe pushed himself out of his pupa and out came a beautiful stripe butterfly. Stripe have metamorphosed into a butterfly and that gave hiw fulfillment and the meaning that he have searched for. I hope this story for little kids have awakened your mind of the life that we should have lived...a life of the real fulfillment and the real essence of happiness....Insights please! |
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Some of us gets uncontented with what we have in life we always seek for other things that we think is much better than what we already have. We tend to neglect the beauty of the simple gifts life has given us because our attention is more focused on the aim of catching bigger things....we always want to be on top, we want to be ahead of everybody. Life is just simple we have to be contented for what we have,simple things are the greatest gifts, we just don't know hor to appreciate them
ReplyDelete- R. Arreglado
We all know that life is very important for us because it is a gift from God and we need to give importance on what blessings we have receive. 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.
ReplyDelete--Maureen Ocampo
Hope for the Flowers theme is about life, ressurection and faith. Its about finding youre place in life.
ReplyDelete-keyron alarilla