Day 17: A book you’ve read that changed your views on something.

I've been thinking all day about a book that had really changed my views on something.
I could say the Book of Mormon, which changes my views on myself and my relationship with God.

 

Or how Henry Eyring's talk called Waiting Upon the Lord, changed my view on trials and the purpose of this mortal existence. 

 

I could say that in seventh grade when Mrs. Finch suggested that I read Shabanu; Daughter of the Wind, it changed my views on my identity as a young woman, and it made me grateful to live in the country and time and with the customs that I do.

 

But today, the 'book' I read today, wasn't a book (thus the quotes). Today at work my boss was upstairs doing something, and I'd finished what she wanted me to do so I sat down at the table and I started flipping through the  catalog that had come in the mail today. It was one of those knick-knacky types that are fun to look through and see what they have (but mostly it's things nobody would ever order, like the red sequined baseball cap on the cover). But I did like some of the jewelry; the rings, and this necklace:

For the rest of the day I thought about this. How must it feel to be a caterpillar. Now, I know that the caterpillar's brain is super duper small and probably has just two thoughts 1) "find food" and 2) "don't get eaten". She comes to the point where instincts tell her to find a safe spot and start spinning herself into a chrysalis, and pretty soon she's all wrapped up, and it's not comfortable. She can't move, she can't find food, she can't even see. Things are getting a little hairy. Plus, her body is doing freaky things that she doesn't understand. The world must be ending.

Then, she begins to try to push against this self imposed prison, she stretches, she gets out of her comfort zone, and she decides that she is not going to be a victim of her circumstances, she's going to do everything she can to fix it. 

And she does. 

Hello Butterfly!