The Clock That Counted Smiles
Time Measured by Joy, Not Minutes
A peculiar clock in a joyful village ticked forward only when someone smiled genuinely. During hard winters, it would stop for months. One season, it halted entirely. A young girl made it her mission to restart it. She visited every lonely home, shared stories, baked biscuits, made small joys bloom. Slowly, smiles returned — and the clock began to move again, stronger than ever. People realized time had never stopped; they had simply forgotten how to let it pass with warmth.
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