consider

Consider a vast ocean. Consider that the ocean and its air conspire (breathe together) and create a vast cloud. Consider that the cloud rains trillions of zillions of droplets. Consider one of the droplets. Deep within it is a residue. Upon it creatures swarm. They call this residue within the droplet Earth. They go about their droplet business, drinking Slurpees and otherwise feeding off the residue and its creatures, even launching forays into the residue's immediate surrounds, confident they are the lords of creation, masters of the universe, and most not remotely aware that their droplet exists among a gazillion of others nor that their droplet will eventually merge with the ocean, and in some sense has never left it.