On a Cloud

Have you ever wondered where the clouds go? When a child asks his mom or dad, “Hey where are those clouds going up there?” how would you reply? Instead of an “I don’t know” response, you could always try something slightly more philosophical like: “Clouds have no destination. They just go. They’re not like us. They appear and disappear and just go where the wind takes them.”

Unlike the clouds, Moms, Dads and kids always have places to go and things to do. Karate class, piano lessons, friends, work, shopping…the list is endless. We live life with a purpose, even when we think we’re just relaxing. We eat, sleep, play, work and breathe because we can and we want to.

But what of a cloud’s life? If we were more like clouds, going in the direction the wind takes us and merging with other clouds when they cross our paths, forming into a thunderhead to rain down on the earth (a truly purpose-driven cloud), then breaking up and dissipating into nothingness, would it be such a bad life?

Like everything we come in contact with, clouds do enjoy a purpose and as far as inanimate objects go, they live a life with a great deal of meaning.

We can be jealous of the clouds from time to time. After all, they just go.

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