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Opinion Volume 10 Issue 2
The monarch butterfly larva who wants to be an eagle, that wishes to be a condor a story of celestial progress
Victor Whizar-Lugo MD
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Intensive Care Unit, Hospital General de Tijuana, ISESALUD, México
Correspondence: Victor M Whizar-Lugo MD, Hospital General de Tijuana, ISESALUD, Av. Centenario 10851, Zona Rio, Tijuana B.C., México Zip Code 22,320, Tel +52-664-6848905, Fax +52-664-6848906
Received: February 28, 2018 | Published: April 16, 2018
Citation: Whizar-Lugo VM. The monarch butterfly larva who wants to be an eagle, that wishes to be a condor a story of celestial progress. J Anesth Crit Care Open Access. 2018;10(2):78-79. DOI: 10.15406/jaccoa.2018.10.00364
Opinion
The search for HAPPINESS implies a series of factors such as dedication, effort, experiences, failures, successes, goals, facts and much more that throughout life we are forged as human beings, as professionals, like people who walk through life by paths so diverse and full of surprises, dangers and opportunities. When a larva is ready to become a Monarch Butterfly, it goes through an important metamorphosis in its life cycle. On the one hand, the birds that inhabit their environment will try to devour them as part of that particular moment of the beginning of their life. Millions of larvae end up digested by thousands of birds and millions of others achieve the gorgeous transformation of becoming a beautiful Monarch Butterfly that will fly from Mexico to Canada, and die in that frozen country.1-4
In this story there is an extraordinary larva that has determined a special goal for her whole life; She wants to be a bird, and therefore must escape to the voracity of the birds that surround her. Once she can unfold its showy wings, full of a bright orange with black and white shades that contrast with the bright blue of the sky that have seen her birth, she will fly in search of her goal.
This new and rebellious Monarch Butterfly came out of the pile of monarchs and perches on a trunk, from there she will starts her crazy flight as if designed by a NASA engineer, or better yet; as an experienced Monarch Butterfly.
Under the copious rain and snow of the Mexican sanctuary where she was born, she makes her first flight among the huge oyamelles trees and joins millions of butterflies that are preparing to fly 5,000 km back to Canada.
But the Monarch Butterfly of which I speak, the Monarch Butterfly of this anecdote is different from her sisters; She wants to be a Bird; She will be a seagull or even better, she will become an Eagle or a Condor to sail the skies with the certainty that She will reach her most coveted goal; the excellence.
The route that this young Monarch Butterfly must travel to reach her goal of life begins with the transformation and fortification of her tinny body; the almost transparent fragility of her wings will become two powerful limbs covered in feathers, her brain will continue to hallucinate a goal of being excellent and will always be ready to assimilate the change, the challenge and the new knowledge she wants to find in her new ways of living, and her body will adapt to solve these new challenges.
Or maybe she will transform into an American Eagle and fulfill a different dream? Or will she would be a Condor that overflies the Sierra Madre Occidental or the Andean mountains?
From Monarch Butterfly to Heavenly Bird, she will be able to undertake a flight full of empathy, of knowledge, of love, of experience; a journey that crossing the skies makes her shine like a solar star that radiates prosperity, placidity, boom and fortune in a path that seeks total excellence, an essential component of HAPPINESS.
Neither walls between countries, nor small or enormous distances between cities or towns, not even the barrier of languages or interests of third parties can prevent this Monarch Butterfly turned into a Heavenly Bird to reach its life goals.1‒4
Acknowledgment
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Conflict of interest
Authors don’t have any conflict of interest.
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