Growing up is like a caterpillar (a short paragraph)
Growing up is like a caterpillar. When a caterpillar is at the very beginning of it’s life, it prefers to stay on the plant it was born on. Compare this to when you’re a toddler, you usually stay home or are shy to other people when you first meet them. However, life always brings change, like when the caterpillar eats all the leaves on the plant that nurtured it and raised it. The caterpillar will have to move onto another plant. This is similar to your first day of school, were you have to leave everything you know and enter this new way of living, meeting new friends and challenges with each passing grade. In a way, a caterpillar does the same thing. As it gets older, it has to move from plant to plant annually, like when you go through grades in school. There are also challenges such as birds and other caterpillars that want to eat you or the plants. As you go into higher and higher grades, things seem to slow down, become insipid and somewhat repetitive. This is when the caterpillar would be in a cocoon stage, were things do not appear to be changing. However, things are changing even though it does not look like it, before you know it you’ll be in high school, and then collage. Then you become a butterfly, beautiful and smart, changed and ready for the life ahead. The possibilities are endless as you fly off the ground, looking for your purpose in life. Life is precious, my friends, don’t waste it.