Contemporary

The girl and the 2 light bulbs

This story is written specially for ones who have friends or friends of friends who exhibit V.O.I.D. and dedicated to my flatmates of year 2005- Scotland.

There was a little girl who lived with her parents in a single-storey house. That house had only two light bulbs installed and they lived with that ONLY source of light since they moved in when she was still a baby. Troughout the end of every year, the light bulbs got dimmer and both mommy and daddy changed the bulbs.

This was how they did it:
Mommy would turned the first switch off first and then unscrewed the bulb and screwed in the new bulb into the socket, turned the switch on again and the house became a little brighter. Then, daddy would turned off the second switch, unscrewed the other bulb and screwed in the new bulb into that socket, turned the switch on again and the house became as bright as the first time they moved in.

All those times, the little girl stood and watched her parents changing the light bulbs. One day, the little girl asked daddy, “Daddy oh daddy, why do you and mummy always change the light bulbs together?” Daddy answered, “Oh little one, if we don’t change the light bulbs together, our whole single-floor home will be pitch black one day and neither any of us will be able to see anything then.” And the girl replied, “Okiday!”

Twenty-two years gone, thus presumably 22 years of the same light-bulb-changing-routine and suddenly, the parents gone with that time too. One day, during the same time end of the year, the light bulbs started to get dimmer, as usual. One of them gone down, leaving the other one the only source of light. The girl, who had turned to a 22 year old lady thought that since she was still able to do pedicure with that one light, she lingered on with that single light bulb. “Cheh, daddy mentioned before that they changed the bulbs together. I’ll only put on both when the other the one goes off…”

It’s baffling to know how one does not try acquiring knowledge of something new that he or she, realize that one fine day, will come to experience. It irks me even more to think how one is thwarted from even TRYing to understand or at least go find out how simple basic things essentially work or come about.

Needless to say, yea… the other went off too. Today in that same old single-story-house, she is currently holding two new light bulbs. In pitch black.

VOID, from the dictionary of Pharmee Peikz, mean Very Obliviously Ignorant Discipline.