let there be light

Once upon a time, there was a firefly. A little boy caught it and put it in a jar. Sometimes, the firefly would fly and so the jar would be lit. But sometimes, the firefly would be still, and the jar would be dull. A scientist came by and saw the boy with the jar and said to the boy,

"Give me your penny, and I will make you a jar that will be lit forever. Its light will come from the sun itself. And you will no longer have to rely on the whims of the firefly."

You see, the scientist knew that all the worldly possessions of the boy was in that penny and in asking for the penny, he was actually asking for his world. The boy knew that the scientist was a clever person and well, what else is a boy if not foolish. So he gave the scientist the penny and the scientist gave the boy the jar of bottled sunshine.

It even came with a blueprint describing exactly, and very scientifically, how it worked. Sadly, as the boy found out, it didn't work. To quote the boy,

"The Sun Jar offers no light and will only work in complete darkness, The only way I can get my Sun Jar to give off that warm amber glow is to sit in a room with no other light source, I also tried my Sun Jar outdoors and it even struggled then, replacing the rechargeable battery with a normal one did help, but this does defeat the object.

Anyway it’s now gathering dust in my living room, and although the LED’s are a disappointment the thing still looks great as ornament."

And therein lies the moral of the story.