In February 2016, when I was in the last year of the high school, I participated in a spiritual retreat with some of my classmates and two of my teachers. On the second day of the retreat, a nun read a text about candles aloud. The text said that a candle can either remain unlit (so that it stays tall, but it is useless) or be lit (so that it shortens, but it illuminates the surroundings), and that the same applies to humans. After the reading of the text, each of us could light a candle and put it on the floor. I was not sure if I was going to do it : I agreed (and I still agree) with the ideas of the text, but I was afraid (and I am still afraid) of fire. So, I said that to one of my teachers, and she helped me to light a candle and to put it on the floor.
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