The Butterfly of Freedom

As I prepared for this journey, so many people asked me how I can just pick up and go. How I can leave everything and everyone behind and travel with just a bag on my back.

I had a hard time answering until I received a card from my coworkers at Goodness me. This I feel explains a lot of how I can justify living as I do :)

On the front of the card was a picture of butterflies inside a box. One of the butterflies had flown out of the box. The card read:

The Butterfly of Freedom

"Why do you fly outside the box?"

"I fly outside the box because I can."

"But we KNOW the box. We are SAFE inside the box!"

"That, my friend, is why I leave it.

For you may be SAFE... but I AM FREE!"