Fire and Love
Before human being knew how to make fire, human beings ate uncooked food. Crude food was hard to eat and unhealthy. Human being had ever been trying for a long time to preserve fire after some woods caught fire. Finally SuiMuShi invented the way of making fire. He used long sharp stone to drill in wood quickly, and put some dried grass under the wood. During the process of drilling, whick could make sparkle, the flammable grass would get ignited.
SuiMuShi’s invention was so important that human being’s civilization got greatly improved. Thereafter, human beings could eat cooked food that was tasty and healthy. Human beings didn’t ate crude food like wild animal any more, I think, which is big step that primitive lived in real human-like style. SuiMuShi was thus elected king because of his great invention that was a milestone in human history.
Fire always means warm and existence of human. Sometimes when I camp out with some fellows, we always make camp-fire that not only make us feel warm but also let us feel safe. When a single person walks in the desert or deep forest, the sight of fire always makes him expect some people after the long lonely journey.
Fire also means livingness. In the summer moonlit night, people who camp out like to make fire, sitting around it. The fire makes the joyful face more lively. The fire is not for warm and safety, but for putting more livingness into their heart.
Fire means nice things. When we say some girls are hot, I reckon it means that people will catch fire in their hearts when they see the hot-girls. When some books is hot, people like to buy them, I guess, which may stir some sparkle inside their souls. Fire means passion that make people’s hearts hot, fire means love that make people’s heart live.
While fire is great helpful to us, it can be also harmful because of the evil use of it or the carelessness to it. XianYu(项羽) had the legendary Palace burned down , A Pang Gong (阿房宫), which is said to extend 800 miles. The terrorist crashed the World Trade Center, the fire burned down the grand buildings into a ruin. Just couple days ago, the fire burned the forest nearby Athens, threatening to ruin a lot of precious relics.
While we watch movies, the fight-themed movies are always full of sublime fire that destroys everything that it can burn down. Fire means destroying, ruin,mercilessness.
Fire, if being evil used, burns things, love burns heart. Love gives people happiness. But sometimes, love hurt people the most. The betrays of lover, breaking up with friends, the loss of beloved, when love turns into bitterness, love also can ruins anyone.
It seems that what gives us the greatest happiness sometimes hurts us most if we can’t use them in the right way.