The news is often wasted on the negative. It’s a true crime. All too often people are painted in a bad light. Coloured to appear darker than their potential. And when they act out of “character” their actions are deemed alien. We become so used to the status quo that we begin to perceive a new “norm”. There’s an old debate almost as old as hate and violence.

Everyone talks about the worm

And the butterfly or moth

Never the cocoon

Which is like dying

But you're above ground

That's what interests me the most

I want to hear about the pain

What had to be sacrificed?

And how to come out not alive

But evolved

To what you were created for

The butterfly or moth can't tell me

Can you?

Human: I first discovered this creature in my reporting class Spring Semester of 2019. For the first few lectures I only recognized them by their auburn tresses, as well as the back of their shoulders. It wasn’t for a few weeks in, that I was able to notice them as an individual person.