The Moth and the Star

Ever heard about The Moth and the Star?

"A young and impressionable moth once set his heart on a certain star. He told his mother about this and she counseled him to set his heart on a bridge lamp instead. 'Stars aren't the thing to hang around,' she said. 'Lamps are the thing to hang around.' 'You get somewhere that way,' said the moth's father. 'You don't get anywhere chasing stars.' But the moth would not heed the words of either parent. Every evening at dusk when the star came out, he would start flying toward it and every morning at dawn, he would crawl back home, worn out with vain endeavor...the moth left his father's house, but he would not fly around street lamps and he would not fly around house lamps. He went right on trying to reach the star, which was four and one-third light years, or twenty-five trillion miles away..."

-From Jame's Thurber's "Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems"