My Fire

The man and the boy, The Road's main characters always talk about carrying the fire. The fire, after much discussion with my classmates, was decided to be hope. The man knows they are slowly dying and that the warm weather that they are so fervently seeking is not coming to a realization. Their fire is the hope of finding something, anything, that helps their situation. They blindly keep moving, hoping to not get caught, hoping to find food, hoping to be able to live one more day. Their fire also represented the more literal sense of an actual fire- carrying warmth and therefore life with them. A person's fire can be argued to be the most important thing of them- it is what gives them a drive in their life and when a person's fire begins to dangerously flutter that is when someone should start to worry.

My fire is my desire to travel. All my career options and life plans rely on the idea of me studying, working and living abroad. My fire is knowing the unknown, and like the wood or coal that feeds a fire what feeds my fire is the different and the undiscovered (undiscovered by me of course). It might look like a simple idea, or an very 'young adult' thing to want to do but I am already taking steps into keeping my fire out and alive. I will be spending about 10-11 months living with a host family in Malaysia. Then I come back and spend two semesters abroad in Florence, Italy. If I am going to be living in two completely different countries within the next two years of my life, when I am not even 20 yet, where else will I be going? I think that to keep my fire going is to not be afraid, to just go ahead and do things and accept things and try out for things because taking the bold movement is almost always the best idea.