Lily white and the Cloud game.
Lily white was playing badminton in the garden with her sister Rosy Red. After a while they got tired and then were bored and were seen lying down on the grass, under a tree. Obviously, they were looking at the sky.
"Sky is pretty nice today". Lily said to her sister.
"Look, that cloud is just like a giraffe!" her sister exclaimed!
"Oh, we should play the cloud game". Lily said.
It was one of their favorite games. Just looking at clouds and making imaginary figures. It was exciting as; nobody knew what would come up next in the sky.
So, for next half an hour, they were seen giggling under the tree looking at clouds. Wasn't it a wonderful game? By the time their mom called them for the afternoon tea, they did not feel tired at all. And Lily was seen thinking, while she was having her bread.
"What is it, Lily? What are you thinking about?" Mother asked.
"Oh, mom, I was wondering how the clouds are made?"
"That's easy, when the sun heats everything during the day, water gets boiled and become tiny droplets and rise in the sky. And when they cool, they make clouds" Her mother explained.
"So, if I touch a cloud, I will feel water?"
"I guess it is correct, but you wouldn't be able to touch a cloud, when up close it would just look like mist"
"Oooow.. I see, the mist, a cloud is like a mist in the sky"
Lily white was happy with the answer, only for a while. Her mind was always wondering like a puppy let lose in a park. She couldn't stop being curious. So, she asked.
"Is everything made out of something?"
"What are you thinking now Lily?"
"I don't know, I was wondering, if clouds are made out of water droplets, and if water is made out of atoms, what makes atoms? And what makes what makes atoms? Is there an end to it?"
"Oh, poor lily, you are actually correct, everything is made out of something, and there is no end to it. I am sure you will learn a lot in science class."
"Guess I should be a scientist then"
Her mother was seen smiling to herself, when they both left for their study. And she heard Rosy Red asking, "Who is a scientist?"
And before bed, Lily made an entry in her diary, which read like this.
"Today we played the cloud game, and I was wondering what clouds are made of. Apparently, they are made of water, like mist. And everything is made out of something else. I wonder there is a thing, which is made out of nothing? maybe I will ask a scientist when I meet one"
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