Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Littlest Lightbulb

This is a story about a light bulb.
The Littlest Light Bulb as a matter of fact.
This bright little bulb, was quite an explorer, he'd explored most of the Big House.
The Big House was the entire world to the Littlest Light Bulb you see.
For you or me it would be a regular sized house, but to him (and the rest of the light bulbs, but this story isn't about them) this was a big place indeed.
The Big House stood on the far side of town.
Of course there was no way for our intrepid Light Bulb to know this, the farthest he'd ever been was the upstairs bathroom.
The Littlest Light Bulb lived in the refrigerator and when the humans where home he did his job faithfully, when ever they'd open the door he'd brighten up so they could find things with the kitchen light off.
However when the humans left, as they did everyday in the morning to go into the Big Big World (which he'd only ever seen through the window), the Littlest Light Bulb would climb out of his home and down into the Big House.
Everyday he would walk as far as he could.
As he wasn't very big he couldn't open doors and only by riding the cat could he go up the stairs.
The cat however had a mind of its own and wouldn't necessarily take him where he wanted to go.
So his exploration of the house was incomplete.
So the day when he came out of the refrigerator and walked down the long hall to find the darkest room he'd ever seen he wasn't so much surprised as he was excited. Every day he'd seen this door and wondered what was behind it. And to day was the day he was going to find out.
This was however truly the darkest room he’d ever seen.
He entered slowly and from the darkness he heard a noise.
The Littlest Light Bulb only being a small refrigerator light could only brighten so far into the black room ahead of him.
He moved farther and farther into the room, and soon he was out of the arc of light provided by the door.
With every step the noise grew closer and louder, then a rush past him nearly knocking him over.
The cat had ran past him and into the house the door whooshed closed behind it.
And he was alone in the dark.
Anxiously he wandered the room until he got the the far side, where a sliver of light was barely on the ground, and suddenly a grinding noise above him startled the Littlest Light Bulb.
Then a sudden burst of light dimmed him to barely a glow and he ran toward it knowing this may be his only chance to see what ever this great thing is.
And then he's outside for the first time.
And he truly knew he was in the Big Big World because he looked up and he saw the Brightest Light.

This glorious moment was short lived though.
The Littlest Light Bulb suddenly got the feeling he was being watched.
He got scared and stared running, but it was to late, a bird had already decided swoop at him.
Instantly he's off the ground and if he wasn't so scared, he would have sad this was the most fun he'd ever had.
However the next thing he knows, he's falling.
A
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FALLING
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When he woke up he had know Idea where he was.
He started walking, not sure if he was even going the right way.
Eventually he came upon a ravine, not very wide, but very deep.
Not being one to give up on a direction once he's started going in it, he decided to cross it.
He walked along it for a while, and then quite luckily he came upon a log which had some how fallen a crossed it.
He balanced he his way over and began walking again.
He walked for what seemed like forever. He didn't feel like he was getting any closer and he was starting to get scared.
It started getting darker too, the Brightest Light slowly sliding down the sky, just like he'd seen it do through the window, only closer.
He made shelter in a small rock formation.
The next day was filled with new adventures.
Early in the day he thought he saw something in the distance and started walking towards it.
As he got closer he saw it was another light.
The Littlest Lightbulb called out!

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