Imagine what it would be like to climb out of the secure watery world that you have always known onto an exposed blade of grass to wait for a transformation to take place, a transformation from the inside.
Impatiently waiting for your skin to dry in the sun, you prepare to break out of your former body, unfurl your wings, and fly into the air. You’ve waited all your life for this moment, when you emerge as a dragonfly. How hard it must be to wait for the transformation to be complete. At last you take off, forever changed, leaving behind the empty outer shell as the sole evidence of your former existence.
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