The Life of a Cloud

If a cloud could think, what would it think?

And then there are those of you who are saying, "But clouds don't think." Yeah. The word "if" makes a huge difference.

Would it be like Woah I'm a cloud or would it be like I wonder what those little stick things that walk on two sticks think of me. (To answer that question, hypothetical thinking cloud, we think you guys look like bicycles. And popsicles. And unicorns. And rocket ships. And our really mean fifth grade teacher.)

Would the clouds be actually intelligent in the way they thought thoughts, or would they just be like I'm a cloud. I'm a cloud. I'm a cloud. I'm a cloud. Would they even know they were clouds?

Maybe there would be a cloud language that clouds would invent so that clouds could speak their own language. They would have conversations in their language and write by changing their shape to also communicate with other clouds. Each blob would have its own meaning and depending on whether the blob had a lump on one side or the other, or how big the lump was, they could make different words and ideas.

Maybe the clouds would have their own religion where the Moon would be god and the Sun would be goddess and all other things would be decided by the Moon and Sun. They would worship the gods by creating special cloud dances to celebrate and honor them.

Maybe they would live in "cloud clusters" where there would be groups of clouds in social class systems. The bigger clouds would be the old, wise clouds and the smaller ones would be the young, immature clouds.

Would there even be "cloud death?" How would a cloud die? What would the clouds do to commemorate the clouds' death?

Maybe the clouds died by raining - the Moon releasing the cloud's soul from this airy (ha ha, get it, airy?) life - and the afterlife was spent with the tiny little specks on the Earth's surface until the clouds could rise again as young baby clouds. Whenever the Moon and Sun felt like it, maybe they would release the souls of many clouds, and all the rest of the clouds would be silent and grey and mourn. Maybe a telltale sign of soul-releasing would be the clouds getting heavier - a sign that the Earth was pulling the soul towards it.

Would they think the Earth was good or bad? Would they think that birth as a new cloud meant escape from the evil Earth, or would they consider it that the cloud still had to do more good before experiencing the blessed Earth?



But then again, clouds don't think and so they don't have cool cloud languages and "cloud clusters" and awesome cloud religions and cloud death and soul-releasing.


Stupid science, always ruining my dreams.