Shiny!

Bright!

Inspiring!

The perfect story!

Intriguing and confounding!

Designed to uproot the mind to a better place!

***

Temporary.

When the story ends and the movie curtains close, it disappears.

I remain as I was before thrown back to my body.

Not physically or mentally different.

No strange miracle taken place.

The only souvenir the grains of sand added to imagination.

***

A vacation for the mind is a wonderful thing but not what I chase.

I seek the rare story that stands out among the rest.

The kind that adds more than just sand.

A pillar of support or a pair of wings.

An addition to my being rather than a removal of mind.

Something permanently affecting.

***

I seek to replicate that miracle for others.

A change I have seen in myself for the better.

A struggle I take on not for myself.

I go into the challenge expecting nothing in return.

I have already received my payment in full.

Anything further simply a pleasant surprise like a good ending to a story.