If you asked, mainly adults what they think a star is they would answer.
“A star is nothing more than a ball of gas and light in the sky”
If you asked a teen, mainly around my age what they thought a star is they would answer
“A star is like a celebrity or someone famous”
What if you asked someone of religious views?
“Every star that lights up our sky is a soul passed on from this world onto the next”
But the only answer that is most accurate, is the one given by a mere child, that answer given in our younger years when we only began to see them
“Bright” That’s it, bright, nothing more. They’re so bright that we can see them from millions of miles away and we can never fully understand or admire their light but…
None of the answers are wrong.
Technically, a star is a ball of gas and light. But it is much more than that
Celebrities are stars, Souls are stars
WE are stars
We are bright and dynamic just like the lights in the sky. Some tend to flicker just as I did but they still shine on. Some are so bright you can see them though all the lights and the smoke from the cities that tend to block out the night skies. Some go out before they even have a chance to shine unfortunately.
Like stars we also, die.
But we also attempt to shine our brightest to get noticed by the multiple eyes of this world and to out shine the billions and billions of other stars.