The Elusive Butterfly of Happiness
Are You Chasing the Elusive Butterfly of Happiness?
For many people happiness is an elusive butterfly in the garden
of life. Imagine a young child in the garden on a summer day.
The child sees a beautiful butterfly flitting from flower to
flower. With eyes of wonder the child wants to see it close up,
touch it, and hold it in their hands. The child goes towards the
flower that the butterfly is resting on, with arms out
stretched, only to find as he just gets in reach, the butterfly
moves to another flower. Undeterred the child follows the
butterfly to the next flower, and then the next, but the
butterfly always stays just out of reach.
As adults, happiness can seem just like that butterfly, always
just out of reach. It becomes almost an obsession and the words