Moon wandered along the river bank, picking up stars and tossing them into the current as it whooshed by.
She had sat a long time by the river. Thinking about thinking, which she knew was a very silly thing to do, even though she couldn’t think why.
When at last the final star had been tossed into the flow, Moon rose to meet Sun, where the two sat side by side, staring into the milky way.
‘Sun?’ said Moon. ‘Why do you think we think?‘
‘Oh, well that’s easy,’ said Sun. ‘We think so the others won’t feel lonely.’
‘What others, Sun?’ asked Moon, curious, and a little envious that her friend had met other thinkers, even though it had been just the two of them for the longest time.
‘Oh, no one up here, Moon. Down there. Look. The humans. Gosh they make a mess with all those thoughts.’
‘Oh, the humans,’ said Moon. ‘Yes. They can make themselves sad and angry by thinking things that aren’t even true.’
‘Yes, Moon. So It’s best not to leave them lonely. Let’s sit here and think for a bit.’
And so the two best friends of the sky sat and thought until it was time for Sun to set.
‘Ouch!’ said Moon. ‘That really hurt, Sun.’
‘What hurt, Moon?’
‘That thought. Maybe we shouldn’t think anymore,’ said Moon, as she rubbed her cheek until the blush returned to normal.
‘But what would we do if we stopped thinking, Moon? Thinking is what we do,’ said Sun as he continued to sink into the apricot sky.
‘I know what we’ll do, Sun.’
‘What, Moon?’ said Sun, hoping his best friend really did have the answer they had both been looking for.
‘Sun? We’ll shine. That’s what we’ll do,’ said Moon, as she turned her brightest ray up to eleven.
And just like that, thinking fell out of the sky, and all that was left was shine.
Just the way Sun and Moon liked it.
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