This caterpillar was crawling around learning about life, when he saw lots of other caterpillars crawling up a great pillar, as if there was something up at the top. So, he crawled up too – because everyone else was crawling up. As he got higher, he noticed that the caterpillars were stepping on each other to climb up the pillar. So he too climbed aggressively.
As he continued to crawl upwards, he noticed some caterpillars crawling down. “Don’t bother,” they said, “there’s nothing up there”. It turns out that they were simply climbing up a pillar which was nothing but other caterpillars.
The story ends with our caterpillar coming back down to the bottom and learning how to become a butterfly.
(Jim Pinto)
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