The water splashed merrily in its native sea element. But one day a crazy idea came into her head to reach the sky itself. She turned to the fire for help. With his scorching flame, he turned the water into tiny droplets of warm steam, which turned out to be much lighter than air. The steam immediately rushed upward, rising into the highest and coldest layers of air.
Finding themselves at a sky-high height, the droplets of steam became so numb that they could not touch a tooth from the cold. In order to somehow warm up, they pressed themselves closer to each other, but, having become much heavier than air, they immediately fell to the ground in the form of ordinary rain.
Sick with vanity, the water ascended to the sky, but was expelled from there. The thirsty earth swallowed up every drop of rain. And the water had to serve its punishment in the soil for a long time before it could return to the sea.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru