In the sky, a star swam closer to the Moon.
- Tell me, Moon, do the people down there like us?
- Hm. To they love you-e? I don't know, but enjoy in us - he replied.
- Don't they do it out of love?
- What do you mean?
- I mean, if you find something beautiful, it's because you love it, right? - the star asked hopefully.
The Moon thought for a long moment.
- You know, there might be something beautiful even without would you like.
- How?
- By not seeing it with your heart, but with your eyes. Just for its own sake, because it is beautiful.
- And how can you know why someone sees you as beautiful? - the star continued to ask.
- A difficult question. I've never thought about it.
- But still. I would very much like to know.
- I think that whoever loves you Give to want. And he who delights in you without love wants this good feeling only for himself.
- Oh... - the star was sad.
- Why are you asking these questions?
- I just... I don't know. All those people down there, looking up at us at night. And that's when I see them dreaming. They don't always look happy, but they seem to have something to say. A secret. I've tried to decipher it many times, but I don't understand.
- Yes, it is. Some things people only think about when they are watching us. It takes us. Do you understand that?
- "Yes, I see," said the star. "Each one is a silent wish. It's as if they were praying to us.
- Exactly. That's what we need.
- After all, if we need to them, then they please contact from us, and not are given, right?
- True - the moon has admitted it.
- There is nothing to be done about it. After all, he just said that this is the point.
The star did not speak, but stared sadly at the Earth.
- You know," said the Moon, "there is also love when you ask, expect, but do not give.
- I do not understand.
- "Not because you don't want to give anything," explained the Moon, "but because you know that the one you love is shining so high above you that you can't give him anything, except that you know, you delight in him.
And the star swam happily back to that spot in the sky where people could admire it.
