Butterflies- Original

18x24 Original. Acrylic on stretched canvas.

People constantly say things like, “I don’t know why bad things always happen to good people.”

Well, I bet if you stopped to really think about it, you’d realize that you do. The good ones always stick around too long. Whatever is going bad, they try to stick things out. They sacrifice themselves to attempt to salvage the situation. The weak ones, the selfish ones, they cut and run as soon as the shadow of trouble appears. Or, worse, they push the people close to them into the path of the coming calamity.

The good are constantly injured, constantly hurt, and sadly, often take on the destructive traits of the people who hurt them, to protect themselves from future pain. But the best people... the best absorb the pain, and whether they make peace with it or not, refuse to deflect that pain to the world around them. On the contrary, they take their pain and use it to reinforce their purpose to be a force of love, a force of good, of healing and comfort, to the world around them.

' Butterflies ' is dedicated to all such people. All too often, their hurts consume their vision and it is all they can see. They look in the mirror and only see diminished versions of their former selves. They are unable to see who they really are. They do not see the light they shed on the rest of the world, the inspiration that their kindness, compassion, and love in the face of pain provides. ' Butterflies ' is simply a mirror for those people. They are the light, they are the vibrant colors of the Earth, they are the rebirth, the phoenix rising, the butterfly from the cocoon. They are the heart, the life-blood of human-kind.

And they deserve to know it.