Where Do Stars Come From?

Every evening the moon appears in the sky with just enough time left in the day to admire the sun as it falls beneath the horizon, then, the moon rises alone in a dark sky.

Thousands of years ago the moon began to cry each night after the sun had vanished and it was left alone in blackness. The moon never cried because it was scared or because it was dark; the moon cried because it was lonely and it longed — every night — to be near something as magnificent and beautiful as the sun. Well one evening, before the moon was left by itself, it cried, and the sun watched, and before the sun was able to comfort his forlorn companion, he fell to greet the other side of the earth. The next night, the sun examined the moon as it floated above the earth, and it wondered why the moon existed melancholy instead of ecstatic. As far as the sun was concerned, lighting up the day and heating the air for human beings was the one thing that allowed the sun to exist happily; it could only assume that the moon could experience the same sensations when it gave light to human beings during the night: hearing their prayers, watching their mischiefs, and even just being something spectacular for each person to admire — the sun could not fantasize of anything to make the moon so entirely sad.

Suddenly, it occurred to the sun; it knew exactly what the moon was yearning for. Do you remember learning that the sun is a huge star? Believe or not, sometimes the sun will run out of light, so it keeps thousands and thousands of tiny stars in its pockets to keep itself bright. When the sun realized that the moon was lonely, it reached into its pockets and threw all of its extra stars into the sky to give the moon some company. When the moon saw those starts shining so brightly in the night, it no longer cried, it no longer felt lonely, and it smiled all throughout the night; and each time the moon smiled at the sun late in the days, the sun inherited brightness from that striking smile, which keeps it shining strong everyday. Now, the sun and the moon are both happy with an incredible magnitude and the world has been granted the most wonderful stars in the universe; even the ones you cry with and even the ones you wish on.