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When I was a kid I used to think the moon always followed me around in the night. A beautiful natural heavenly body with light to the earth. One night, I was returning from my aunt’s house with my mum, we took a public taxi and it was late in the night. There was something else I noticed about the moon. As the car was moving very fast, the moon tirelessly moved with the same speed, I was stunned. I drew my mum’s attention to it, and asked why the moon had to follow us everywhere we went at night. She smiled, and replied calmly, “we need it."
"Yes, we do. But why follow us?" I asked.

"To give us the assurance we are living beings." My mum is actually good at proverbs, although that was technically one, I didn’t want to go into probing at the moment. If asked why not, I knew the conversation would have lasted for minutes. Amazed with what I saw, I couldn’t take my eyes off the moon until we alighted the cab.
My house wasn’t very close to the main road, so we had to stroll a few metres into the street before reaching home. She asked if I was satisfied with the question and I smiled. She was fully aware I wasn’t, but wanted to make sure I would like to hear it now or later. "Of course not, mum,"I replied.
"Look at the moon again,"she said softly. I did and it was staring back at me as well, still in the sky.
"I see it, mum."

"Now, halt." I stopped moving and looked back up into the sky.
"What do you see?" she asked again. "The moon, but this time, there’s no motion. It’s standing still."
"Great observation," she remarked,. "You may continue walking.

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"Why did you ask me to stop?"
"Because I wanted you to see the difference and have a better understanding of the moon. It doesn’t follow us. The moon is right in its place in the sky, while we go about our businesses. The only difference is that it travels round the earth." I remembered being taught in school that the earth is spherical, and the sun and moon travel round the earth.
"Do you want me to explain that to you as well?" Mum asked jokingly.

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"No," I replied, "my Geography teacher took care of that already in school."
"Cool. Now I’m sure you must’ve missed the part she mentioned about the moon not stalking us," she laughed.
"No, mum, I didn’t miss anything. She just did a general introduction to the solar system and how they travel round the earth."
"Alright dearie. I believe you," she added. "Now, the moon isn’t just there to beautify the earth, or the night, it’s there to…"
"Give us light," I cut her in. That was disrespectful, but in cases like this, my mum didn’t bother as long as we were making sense.
"Exactly!" She exclaimed "It’s a source of light to earth. And the funny thing is that, it is as far as 225,903km from the earth, that is, when the sun is giving it light too.
"Really?” thought the moon was bigger than the sun? I asked.

"No baby, it’s the other way round, the moon is much smaller than the sun.
It might also interest you to know that there’s no air in the moon for humans to breath. There’s only a very thin atmosphere called the exosphere, which is why astronauts travel with their space suits to enable them breath while they visit the moon.
Also, there’s no water in the moon and so many other facts about it.
"Whoa! I exclaimed. Can you go on talking about it?" I pleaded.

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"No baby. I think you should unlock the door now." she said pointing to the door.
"What?" I didn’t realise we were at our door already cause I was lost in the conversation.

"Okay mum, will you continue when we’re settled?"
"Yes dear. But first, I want you to read up on it so you’d understand better when I add what I have to say."
Mum loved reading, and so she passed the culture to me intentionally by making me read up on different topics before going to her.

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