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Introverts - More of a Transparent than Social Butterfly
| Guest post by: Patricia Weber |
Article Overview: Did you know there is such a thing as a transparent butterfly? Recently a friend emailed me some photos of this beautiful insect that comes from Central America. A quick internet search will find you many photos of this beautiful butterfly. The transparent butterfly is more of a metaphor for an introvert than you might first think. No, not a social butterfly but more like the transparent creature.
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Introverts - More of a Transparent than Social Butterfly
Did you know there is such a thing as a transparent butterfly?
Recently a friend emailed me some photos of this beautiful insect that
comes from Central America. A quick internet search will find you many
photos of this beautiful butterfly. The transparent butterfly is more
of a metaphor for an introvert than you might first think. No, not a
social butterfly but more like the transparent creature.
Butterflies
are fragile to touch. If you ever tried to catch one, just like a
dragon fly, you know that their wings are ultra thin to touch. An
introvert may or may not be a highly sensitive person, research differs
on that. But an introvert knows that their energy is fragile. It needs
to be paid attention to, cared for and replenished. Fragile in an
energetic way.
Specifically the transparent butterfly's
transparency serves as camouflage. Even though they appear fragile,
their transparent design serves to protect them. While the most
empowering and energizing thing for an introvert is to use their
strengths in personal relationships and conversations, sometimes, we
have to take on those extrovert tendencies. It is at those times we
want to remember to where our camouflage, use those extrovert skills
we've learned.
When bred in captivity the glasswing, another name
for the transparent butterfly is quite resilient. At work and in our
personal lives, situations of all magnitudes happen to us. It is at
those times it is more healthy to respond instead of react. This allows
for more resilience. The typical introvert thinks through such
situation and inevitably, finds they too are resilient.
The
butterfly's transparent appearance is also a reminder about finding
clarity. For an introvert, who enjoys thinking before speaking and
planning before doing,
Forced to be a social butterfly, an
introvert will lose their strength. But as has been said about the
transparent butterfly, it can also be said about the introvert: "All
things beautiful do not have to be full of color to be noticed: in life
that which is unnoticed has the most power." And isn't this encouraging
for introverts?
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