The butterfly is not experiencing the fullness of its own beauty…and maybe that’s okay

Butterflies have long graced literature, art, and musings, flitting across the pages of history and seizing our collective imagination. Despite the countless words penned and uttered about them, a thought occurred to me the other day that I hadn’t really pondered: the butterfly is not experiencing the fullness of its own beauty as we, human observers, do. It has a whole world of its own that I, as a human observer, will never know. And beyond that, I can only speculate, envisioning a secret realm of butterfly mirrors where they catch a glimpse of their own magnificence. But whether or not that's true, this remains certain: they aren't witnessing the change from an external perspective.