What follows is a quote from Patch Adams. It's a great movie with a great message, for those of you who have not seen it.
The context of this quote: Patch Adams is talking to a Corrine, a beautiful woman whom he loves. She has been playing "hard to get" and finally opens up to him regarding why she is so afraid to enter into a relationship with him. She discusses how difficult it was to be "that beautiful girl that all the guys always looked at."
She says:
"When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched."
This is not to say that beauty is a bad thing--the opposite--it is a gift from God that one can and should be thankful for! The idea that I took away from it is that acting and dressing in a modest "caterpillar" way is a means for us to protect ourselves from the difficulties of being "that girl"--from being taken advantage of by guys who are not looking at who we are inside, but just at our external beauty.
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