I believe you'll find that i'm such a nice person that I gave first post privileges to accidentallyhomicidal because I felt sorry for her *Blows raspberry*.

Anyway...I shall begin. 

Jump Through Flames

Imagine for a second, purely hypothetically, what would you do if your house was burning down? What would you grab? You’d just woken up to the smell of smoke. The air was thick and you could hardly see. Nobody else was in; you’d been on your own all night. You have to grab one thing. Just one. You’ve probably been asked this question before in a group discussion with friends or as a question in school or something, but you never think about it honestly because you don’t know what you’d actually do in that situation unless you’re in it. No need to get out the matches, just use your imagination.

Some people may go for the obvious mobile phone or laptop, but does that say a lot about who you are? Maybe you’re not a materialistic person. Maybe you just can’t be bothered to go through the hassle of getting a new laptop, getting it back to all the settings you had and getting all your photos, email accounts and music back on it. Or maybe you’re just a person that never thought you’d need to have a safe back up for your stuff and the only copy of all those photos, all those memories, is on just that one laptop. At least if you did that then you could contact people to tell them what’s happened.

Others, however, may choose to go for something of sentimental value like a scruffy old bear that you’ve had since a baby or that ripped and stained book that you’ve read a thousand times, not to mention spilt a good few drinks on. Would you just take the nearest thing to you or would you cross the room, through flames even, to get to what you wanted to keep and protect from being scorched?

On the other hand, this may be completely irrelevant to you as you might be someone who would just follow the guidelines and get yourself out the door and into safety first and hope that a few things could be salvaged after the firemen got there and did their thing. Would you regret that afterwards though? Thinking you could have quickly grabbed that one thing?

So what would you take? Are you a mobile phone grabber or someone who would keep safe their keepsakes? What would your one item be? Would there even be one? Think about it. Do you even have something worth jumping through flames for?...