Why Do People Say They Have ‘Butterflies’ In Their Stomach?
Now, I just want you to cast your mind back and remember a time that you have felt anxious. When I do this, when I cast my mind back, an example immediately comes to mind. The most anxious I have ever felt, even more anxiety inducing (for me) than when I jumped out of a plane at 15,000 feet, meeting someone for the first time. Going on a date… Getting ready that morning, I can remember feeling so sick. I had a migraine, my stomach was hurting, I kept feeling really hot and, mentally, my head was just all over the place. Like I said, the most anxious that I have ever felt. Upon getting out of the house and actually getting there, I had to stand outside for a solid half an hour because I was so overcome with anxiety, ‘fight or flight’ kicking in, in which I felt like I just had to get out of there, to escape, to run. To cut a long story short, I managed to ‘pull myself together’ (in sorts), albeit after half an hour of standing outside, alone, questioning everything, and I ended up having the loveliest time. The anxiety eased and, on that day, I finally understood what people meant when they would say that they had ‘butterflies’ in their stomach as a metaphor for feeling anxious. Sometimes, it takes us doing the thing that scares us the most, it takes us pushing ourselves completely out of our comfort zone, for us to feel the sense of beauty and wonder and awe that we associate with butterflies. When we’re feeling anxious, but we do the thing that scares us anyway, and nothing awful happens, and the outcome of doing that ‘thing’, whatever it is, is actually far better than you could’ve ever imagined, like a butterfly, you transform.
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