Fire

Fire is an important moment in my own personal history. Fire can be very useful as it is used for cooking, giving light, keeping warm, and everything relating to living; however fire can also be very harmful which can cause death. Using fire was almost like walking on a high wire. Fire was once a mystery to me. As a child, I saw people used fire once, so I thought I knew enough to use it safely; but eventually everything was going wrong; as Alexander Pope once said, “A little learning is a dangerous thing”.

The first time I used a lighter as a child, it went badly. I was about five years old when my parents and I were planning to go for a wonderful two days vacation in China. The night before our vacation, my father was showing me how to turn on a lighter and put his hand under and below, which the fire didn’t burn at all. Suddenly, my mother called my father to have a talk; but he forgot to put the lighter on the high shelf as he went away. After my father was gone, I picked up the lighter from the ground and was trying to do the same thing what he did, but I burned one of the finge...