Many, many, many, many, many years ago, there was no sun in the sky. It was just one large black patch with no sun, no moon and no stars. You’d think the earth was pretty dark right? Wrong! There was plenty of light on earth, not from candles or electricity. You see, people those times were born with their own individual sun.
Yes, every person carried their own sun, a ball of light, which hovered a little above their head, just like a halo. It was a lot like our portable emergency lamps we have these days, only it was already there when there were born and which grew as the child grew. It wasn’t too bright or too hot, but just right, just enough to light up wherever the person went. Each sun had a life of its own.
Of course there were the wind and the rain, but that didn’t hurt the balls of light and they shone bright as ever.
People those times, and there weren’t too many of them, were a happy, contented lot. They didn’t know what it meant to get angry or yell. They haven’t experienced envy or greed.
It was a peaceful world.
However, as time passed, more and more people were born and occupy space on this earth. The number of suns also increased.
The more the people, the more the jostle for space, the need to nudge the other person out, giving rise to emotions and thoughts they never experienced before, (not very pleasant ones either). Fights began, and didn’t die down, but lasted and lasted and passed through generations. At each generation, the person was still born with a sun, a halo above their heads, only so faint that one could hardly see it.
At this point, a strange phenomenon began to take place. The light above the heads of the people, all began to float up higher and higher into space.
For every lie uttered, for every hustle for space, for every moment of anger, for every word that hurt, the balls of light floated higher and higher.
Did the people notice this? Yes they did. Did they care? Not at all. As long as there was light above them, what did it matter? They had more important things to attend to here or so they thought.
Time passed and as more and more people came into being, higher went the lights till they were all scattered bits of lights against the sky.
Then the balls of light, (remember they had a life of their own), had a meeting. In this meeting, one large ball of light decided that rather than shine in bits and pieces, scattered all over the sky, how about merging as one big light? And let’s build ourselves right here, no more being down there on earth they thought.
All the other balls of light agreed at once. They were quite happy to comply with this decision. Not once did any ball of light claim that it wanted to shine on its own.
And so, the big ball of light approached the wind and with the help of the wind that went whooooooosh…they all blew towards each other as a giant, great ball of light, bright and dazzling, that could reach out to the whole world.
However, the sun could not work all day and needed to rest and then the moon was created, but that’s another story.
For now that’s how the sun came to be as one ball of light in the sky and till date it works as one to light up the world.
What do you think happened to the people down here on earth? There continued to be more and more of them, with no more suns of course for once the suns merged, the people born down here no longer had their own suns.
And till date, unlike the sun, we are yet to learn to work as one to light up the world.
