A Firefly's Monologue #5

"Are all worlds worth travelling?"

"Yes."

"Are all the worlds you've travel to worth travelling?"

"No."

"You just said-"

"There are worlds I went to and immediately left. Worlds, that once upon a time, I thought would great to tread on. But shortly after, I regretted going there and just left."

"So not all worlds are world travelling to then? You just contradicted yourself."

"I once travelled to a world of magic and fantasy. It was all amusing and interesting to me."

"The people there?"

"The tales and the heroics. All of them were all that mattered. I never heeded the words, the stories of the people there. I was only interested in the way of the world that there is in that."

"Don't you have those kind of powers youself?"

"I have not yet realized it. I thought back then that we all only lived in one world. So my travels to different world were like I'm travelling to different country."

"What of the people? What of their stories?"

"I paid no heed to those. In my eyes then, magic are all the brilliance that sparks the heart. But it wasn't.

"There's more to it than magic alone that lits a spark in the heart."

"That was when you were still young or when you just started your travel?"

"We grow up, at one point. Though not everyone wants to, we will. And when we do, we change. We may not be aware of it but soon you'll notice."

The firefly let loose his wings.

"What happened next?"

"It was vague at first, but slowly I came to realize there was more to it than magic. There were more than those fantasy and lores that I was most fascinated about. There were people. There were soul surrounding me on those places I went to.

"At that point, the magic spells and chants suddenly grew bland. Words of each person I met were more compared to those.

"But I am not saying magic is worthless. They are part of what made those world."

"You grew up."

"They are all worth travelling to. But you do not have to force yourself to go to where you do not want.

"But for you to know what you want or not, you must first travel to a world, blindly or with bias. And then decide whether you'd stay there for a while then leave or see it through."