Answer:
What flies around all day but never goes anywhere?
Hold the tail, while I fish for you.
Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change
You get many of me, but never enough. After the last one, your life soon will snuff. You may have one of me but one day a year, When the last one is gone, your life disappears.
A nut cracker up in a tree.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.