Earthy Tantrums

Earth was feeling jealous, and her blue haze actually turned a little green.
“Why was Sun giving more attention to that small little satellite…..and the Moon was no less – basking in the light of Sunny attention. Huh!!!!! I’ll block out the Moon completely – that’ll teach her a lesson”
Earth fretted & fumed for a couple of days….and then realized that full moon day was approaching soon. The Moon really showed herself off a lot on full moon day. She even inspired a whole lot of earthlings to write about her beauty.
Earth thought, “If only half the people who kept mooning about that satellite wrote something about her, she wouldn’t feel so bad. But wait till full moon day – I’ll block her off completely.”
So Earth positioned herself….and her shadow cut the Sun’s light off completely. The Moon was blocked out.
“Aha this is nice – just block out that pesky white shining satellite. No more poems on the Moon, no more gazing out at the moon….and the Sun too will forget you by the by. But wait, I’ll have to do this for a long period of time – only then will people forget the Moon. So I’ll not rotate anymore – I have to hold on to my position….the Moon has to be shut out. My shadow completely blocks her off today – this has to go on for atleast another month.”

24 hours passed – and lo behold the Earth just did not move. Her jealousy made her stop in her tracks – her only thought being that the Moon must be blocked out.
The earthlings were all puzzled, most were in a state of panic, The scientists did not how to explain the phenomenon of lunar eclipse for 2 nights consecutively. The religious heads were sure that Armageddon was not far away.

Up somewhere, the Big Boss sighed. He had to do some talking to with Earth…..So He came by visiting her. The sight of Big Boss gave Earth the shivers, she felt ashamed, and understood how a twinge of a petty emotion had made her act so irresponsibly.
She looked within herself, and found the earthlings extremely puzzled and panicky. She had shivered wit shame, and the scientists were already studying the correlation of extended lunar eclipse to earth quakes.
Earth sighed and promised the Boss that she will never mess with His creation and cosmic plan. Boss smiled, and gave Earth a little pat which set her back in motion. She started rotating, her shadow moved on, and the moon was sighted again.

God thought “Alls well that ends well. Now I can sit back and see the comedy movie which will be put up by the earthling scientists. They will puzzle over the new phenomenon of lunar eclipses and earthquakes…..someone might even win the big prize the earthlings call Nobel, while doing a research over years and coming to some weird and obscure conclusion."