The Unknowing Metamorphosis
Transformation occurs through bewilderment, not understanding—we emerge from trials fundamentally altered yet unable to explain our own metamorphosis. The storm's true gift lies not in teaching us how to endure, but in dissolving the person who believed endurance was necessary. We mistake suffering for the lesson when it is merely the crucible; what matters is not surviving the storm but becoming someone who no longer needs to survive it. The greatest changes happen below the threshold of conscious awareness, leaving us permanently transformed yet eternally mystified by our own becoming.