Metamorphosis copyright 1987 by Tracy Marks When I have an intuition of the next direction I will be taking, I experience a tension between the activities of the moment and the activities which I know in the future I will embrace. Usually, I feel I must complete the present stage of my life before I can move onto the next stage. Although I treat my intuition of the future tenderly, weaving dreams of possibilities it may unfold, I eventually have to push it out of daily awareness so that I may carry on wholeheartedly with my life as is, and glean all that I possibly can from my present activities or relationships before letting them go. I am in continual metamorphosis. I inch along like a caterpillar, knowing that a new, delicate skin is slowly developing within me, but not until the new skin is perfected and the old skin has become ill-fitting and obsolete am I ready to cast off my prior activities and enter the pupa-like stage of preparing to unfold my wings.

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