Once upon a time there was a beautiful young Ladybug. This Ladybug had beautiful black dots on her bright red shell, with soft, delicate lace wings underneath. The Ladybug made all the other bugs and flowers very happy because of her beauty and charming personality. All the other bugs and beetles would admire the Ladybug’s beauty as she flew about encouraging the flowers and telling them how beautiful they all looked. She was always so happy and willing to see the beautiful things in the flowers and other bugs. This made everyone want to be just like the Ladybug because she was so kind and caring, not to mention beautiful.
One day the Ladybug noticed that she had eaten too much, or at least she thought this was the case. In reality she was her sleek, slender self, she had been influenced by a society that wished to idolize starved and sickly bugs. She felt that she was not worth as much or that she would be liked more by other bugs if only she too could be as undernourished as the bugs that were idolized by her warped society. She did not notice that everyone was very happy with who she was and with the incredible beauty that she already possessed. So the Ladybug stopped eating and tortured her beautiful body so that it became sleek, slender and sickly. She became sick very often and worse of all, her personality changed so that she was not happy anymore. She was grouchy, grumpy and a miserable bug.
Some bugs thought she looked nice, but
one could not live with her, but most bugs were very disappointed by the
negative change. They wished to see her as her old self, beautiful, healthy
and happy, albeit a little more rotund then society might have liked her
but just the way God designed her to be!