We guide our child to be the best among all- best among friends, best among relatives, best among neighbors. But we never guide him to be the best in what he likes. We want him to be the best in what we like. And this is the beginning of slow death of a caterpillar. We treat a child more like a trophy than like a bundle of talents. We polish this trophy only from the side that faces others, neglecting the side facing the self. When he grows up he sees only a rough & disfigured image of self in that trophy & accepts himself as such. Caterpillars or butterflies are not responsible for their extinction. We are.
very well said ,indeed we are doing so......we are killing the tenderness of a caterpillar ,who could grow into a beautiful butterfly of its own colour and kind.
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