I Believe Fireflies Belong in the Country

I believe fireflies belong in the country.

Growing up as a child in the country, summer time was my favorite time of year. One of the things needed to complete a quintessential summer was fireflies. In the country I could see them for miles flickering above the crops. When you are little you don’t think about what other places consist of. You just know how yours is, and you think its special.

When I moved to the city for college, one summer night I was packing up to go home for the weekend. Just as it was getting dark outside, I noticed fireflies were flickering all around me, much to my surprise. At that moment I was upset and I felt like they were trapped, and were being cheated out of the environment they belong in.

Since all fireflies could never live in the environment I believe they belong in, I realized that the ones who live in the country and float freely above the crops in the summer are more content.

Fireflies without a doubt can survive in the city as I was proven. I can do the same. But I would only be surviving. In order to be content I will have to be living at the only home I will ever know, the Midwest in the country.