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Once upon a time, there
was a traffic light… a lonely traffic light. She felt
that nobody gave her much attention. Sometimes people
would stand by her and push the button for the light to
change, and she felt less lonely while they were waiting.
But once the light changed the people would leave and
cross the street.
At times, when the light
was red, the people waiting in the cars would give her
their attention as they waited for the light to turn green.
That also made her less lonely, but not for long. Once
the light turned green the cars would zoom by without
noticing that she existed.
Then, the traffic light
noticed that there was a little red car that passed by
early every morning and again every afternoon. It was
a mother and two little kids dropping off their Daddy
at the train station in the morning and picking him up
in the afternoon.
Sometimes when the light
was red, the two kids would wave to the traffic light,
show her their stuffed animals, or stare at her waiting
for the light to change. That made her very happy. At
other times when the light was green the car would go
right through the intersection and the little kids wouldn't
even look at the light. That made her very sad.
The traffic light wanted
the attention of the two little children and decided that
the next time she saw the car she would turn herself red.
That would give the kids a chance to wave to her or stare
at her. She thought the idea sounded very nice, so that
is what she did the next morning and afternoon when she
saw the red car.
After a few days of switching
herself, the circuit inside of her pole got messed up
and the light stayed on yellow. She tried very hard to
switch it to red or green but she just couldn't.
The next morning, the repairmen
came and opened the little door on the side of her pole.
They worked for a couple of hours and found the problem.
The switch that she used to turn the light from red to
yellow to green had burnt out. In a few minutes they had
replaced the bad switch and the traffic light was bck
to normal. Now she was again able to stop the red car
and see the little children every morning and afternoon.
But after a few days the switch burnt out again and the
repairmen had to come out to fix it once more.
As they
were working, the traffic light could hear them talking
to each other. She heard them saying that the traffic
light must be getting too old and that it was really hard
for all of the people, because it was making traffic jams
when she broke down. When she looked up she saw a huge
line of cars all waiting and honking. All of the people
in them were very upset because they couldn't get where
they needed to go.
It was
then that the traffic light realized how important she
was to all of the people in their cars. She had always
thought that they were simply ignoring her when they drove
away, but now she knew that without her no one would be
able to drive anywhere. Then she felt very bad that she
had caused all of these problems.
The traffic light did not
want to make people unhappy, so she decided that from
now on she would only switch herself from green to red
when it was the proper time so that her switch wouldn't
burn out too soon. She thought of how happy it made people
when she was working properly, and she knew that she would
still see the kids every day, even if it was for only
a few seconds. That made her VERY happy, and from that
day on she was never lonely again.
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Last Prophet Of Allah.
