When I was very young, we owned a 9-acre farm in Kaysville,
Utah. It was a smaller town back then,
and the farm was nestled back in the fields by a small creek. It was away from our home, but we would go
there in the evenings to feed the sheep. Many a Saturday afternoon was spent there
working the farm. I loved exploring the
creek, and looking for the wild cats that lived in the hayloft, thinking I
could tame them. One Saturday afternoon,
I walked to town from the farm to buy a soda.
When I got back, I was shocked to see that a good quarter of the farm
had been burned, and the last flames were being stomped out by my parents and by
another family that we co-owned the farm with.
Apparently, one of the boys had been playing with matches. He had been lighting dried thistles and then
whirling them in the air like a wheel, and one had been flung into the dry
hay. The episode was very surreal and
made a lasting impression on me. The
farm was so secure, stable and fixed. I
couldn’t imagine anything like that happen to it.
LESSON LEARNED: At a
young age, I learned that even the most stable things in life can be threatened with carelessness or outside forces.
FEEDBACK: WHAT EARLY
EXPERIENCE DO YOU HAVE WITH THE STABILITY OF A PLACE OR SITUATION BEING THREATENED?
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