Thought Dumpage

What do I say, huh? I don't really know. All I know is things are getting progressively better for me, which is awesome.

Once upon a time, there was a very special fly. He had the desire to fly all the way across the universe before he died. His fly friends told him that it was impossible to do even for creatures much more capable than him, that his efforts would always prove fruitless. He, however, didn't heed their taunts and warnings. In fact, just to spite them, he began his epic journey weeks earlier than he'd planned, and took off into the vast reaches of the stars.

He got very far, impossibly far for a fly, all the way to the end of the milky way. But then he stopped because he didn't like the look of the universe farther out. He was afraid of flying into a universe that he did not know, so he turned around and flew back to earth.

His friends were right. He didn't deserve to be free.

When he finally returned to earth, his friends greeted him, to his utter surprise, with an enormous congratulations party. What were they congratulating him for? What had he done that was so special?