Being in a fast changing world can be a hustle sometimes. Envisage that you could have been there for all the revolutions, wars, depressions, celebrations, great business ventures and discoveries that have shaped and continue to shape the world. One thing for certain is that you could have fallen in one of three categories, the shaker, the shaken and the observer! These great events created new ideas and many more questions about our existence. As a result, people gathered around fireplaces for conversation.
Business people, politicians, scientists, innovators, realized that by being in an informal setting, creativity was unleashed and brain storming was much more productive. In front of family fires, great ideas have been developed and many more political and business decisions have turned fortunes around! Franklin Roosevelt Used fireside charts to encourage America during the great depression! Then it was a matter of ensuring that investment in America did not slip further and that the people of this nation would recover. Today, American business culture has spread all over the world!
Although fires have revolutionized from coal, wood, oil gas, to electric fires and house heating systems, people work more than they did in previous years. Families are slowly gathering moss, and the old values are disappearing. The one way that families can go back to their roots is through the fireplace. Making a point of evening charts in all seasons, and annual family reunions where each member can share his trials and triumphs over a cup of tea at the family room can build little blocks that will again see social development advancing. So even if you use the central heating system, an artificial fireplace might just be the therapy you need for that family bonding experience!
