Seeing butterflies fluttering around the flowers and plants
never ever come across my mind with any abnormally "Imagination".
I being scare of butterflies or moths for years especially during the night.
But now, hoping to see it appear again...and again..........
According to legend, a person die his spirit will come back to see the
loves one in the form of insects like butterflies or moths and even grasshoppers.
But how true is it, I not really sure, until the years 2003 my father passed away, on the Seventh day morning after my father passed away, a very Big butterfly resting on the wall just outside my house.
We stay on the 6th floor then, there was bushes, trees and flowers around
the ground floor compound. Sometimes there is small butterflies
and bees flying around but such big butterfly ( about 4 inches in size)
seem a bit uncommon and it was right at our door step.
I know its must be our father came back to see us, as what we believed.
On the same day, the butterfly appears at my second brother's home,
My brother saw it at his door gate a huge butterfly, he immediately
understand " if you are father, please come inside to my house".
My father often visit my second brother home to see his two grandsons
Do not notice when was the butterfly got in, it stay in the toilet's
window pane( the window pane was shut then ).
The main hall has deity status Avalokiteshvara( The goddness of Mercy)
as what old folks said the toilet is YIN place whereby the spirit can stay.
It stayed there for hours, because of its huge sizes, the children
was scared ( my nephews was then 1 and 4 yrs old).
So, my brother again talk to it: " the children are scare"
And to my brother surprised, very fast it disappeared and
how did it disappear or fly out of the place, nobody saw it.
It was at my eldest brother home too on the same day.
I wanted to asked the other two brothers whether they
saw any butterfly during the time my dad just passed away
but each time gathering was too busy that forget to about it.
After the funeral, all of us went back to work and the big butterfly
appear at our shop. Usually, its were stay high above the sighboard
or on the wall whereby my father used to sit below during the time
he was helping up in the shop.
Our shop and the business means alots to my father,
he ever said before, his spirit will come and watch over the shop
even he passed away, and true enough he came oftenly.
He came in different sizes of butterflies after his 100th days.
Each time, its will stay many hours before it disappeared.
2010 we got the intention giving up the business and rent
out the shop as business was slow and bad.
From then we seldom saw any butterfly around as if that
our father know that we are going to leave the place.
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