I used to care about sitting next to the fireplace plus learning when I was a kid.
The light from the flames gave enough light to study by too so I could sneak out plus study plus in the residing room even after my mom called lights out, but of course, mom caught me learning from time to time.
She would just remind me not to stay up too late plus then she would leave me to my books. I ended up sleeping in that aged couch by the fireplace more times that I slept in my own bed I think. My whole life, I just knew that when I grew up I will get a apartment with a fireplace, just like the one I had grown up in. Unfortunately, I ended up going to university in the south. This meant renting an apartment and, of course, no fireplace. With the heat of the south, there are not a lot of sites with fireplaces let alone apartments with fireplaces. My first Fall I started feeling genuinely homesick plus I found that learning just wasn’t the same without the glow or the aroma of a fireplace. When my birthday came around, I wasn’t feeling actually cheerful but when I opened up the boxes that my mom sent plus I was surprised to see that she had sent a little electric fireplace. She also sent some fireplace scented candles. The electric fireplace works as a space furnace too but it could also be used without any heat at all with just the flicker of the flames. It’s not super realistic, plus not the real thing, but it’s about as close as I’m going to get in the south. Thank you Mom.