"mama once told me that the brightest stars died out the fastest. 'it is because those stars are so bright that they want to give their light to other little stars to be bright too,' she said.
but as i grew up, school told me it all had a scientific explanation. they repeated it over and over until it was stuck in my small, childlike mind: 'big, bright stars die quickly because they give off heat and energy too quickly, and their fuel runs out.'"
thoughts?