THE LEGEND OF THE BUTTERFLIES

Once upon a time there was a village full of beautiful and colorful flowers, there was an old woman used to have a beautiful flower garden by the shore of a lake. One day a fisherman from around the nearby villages who was very good looking and very kind man who went to the village. And he found the old woman not attractive, but still the fisherman were in love with the old woman and used to come to her every day in the said village and exchanged their fishes from flowers.

Everyone in the village noticed something magical about her, because at night her house had a magical glow and once in a while some dwarfs were seen helping a beautiful young woman worked in the garden. One day a young couple named Ally and Bangi visited the village were the old woman lived, they were proud and hated anything ugly.

And while they were walking around, they noticed the old woman’s beautiful and colorful flower garden.

Then the couple decided to get inside the garden, and without hesitation they grabbed some bouquets of flowers and everything they saw in the beautiful garden, when the old woman saw this, she walked out of her house and asked their names. “Who are you?” the old woman asked, then the young lady responded “I am Ally and…”, “I am Bangi” the guy said to the old woman. After asking the old woman asked the couple to leave, when they turned around to see who was talking to them, instead of obeying her they made fun of the old woman. They laughed and ignored her because they found her ugly. Then the old woman was insulted. She punished them. She walk through the aisle of the garden nearer to the young couple saying “Did anyone tell you that you are not allow to pick up anything in here?” said the old woman and said that since they like only beautiful things, they will be turned into the most beautiful insects and then she touched the couple with her cane saying: “Since you love beautiful things, you will live from now on as beautiful insects”.

Then the old woman was thinking what to call to this beautiful creation, and come up to her mind the combination of the name “ALLYBANGI” until Spaniards came and called it “Alibang” and sooner became “Butterfly” in English. And now everyone will remember that haughty young couple.

And that day, the butterflies were created and came to be, who always are found near beautiful flowers.

This is the legend of the butterflies.

MORAL LESSON:

Whom you will be in the future can be determined in what you love in life now. We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. People around you might be the biggest barriers in every good things that attracts you to grab, opportunities comes only once, never hesitate to grab it. One day you’ll realized they are part of every successful story.