It had been many days since it last rained

It had been many days since it last rained. Actually, it had been several months. Climate change, which had been warned about plenty of times, was now a fact. Many international symposiums have taken place with many experts from around the planet. Nevertheless, nobody knows what is happening. The one thing that they know for sure is if it continues in this way, things will get worse.

Elizabeth Monaghan was a 10-year-old girl, normal and common. She liked playing basketball and hunting Pokemons with her little brother. In spite of that, she was the only person in the world who understood the problem and solved it.

One day, after school, Elizabeth had picked her brother up and, as they used to do every day, went to the park to wait for their mother. Unlike other days, Liz didn’t bring her quadband-and-4G-connexion cell phone (a present from her 8th birthday) because the night before she had forgotten to charge it. So to help pass the time she decided to look at the sky.

She had never realised how beautiful the sky was. A great canvas in blue, with amazing white clouds like a cotton candy, and many birds flying away. She realised too that everybody in the park was looking at their phones, and that she was the only person looking at the sky. Suddenly, she shouted them ‘what a beautiful sky we are fortunate to have! Leave your little displays and look up there, there is a bigger screen!’ A few minutes after that, Liz could feel soft rain on her cheeks.

The solution to the problem was simple: it had not rained for so long because people had stopped watching the sky.