We started off this chapter saying that managers were like fire fighters. Now we have to put out the fires that we create with our messes. Just last night The Notre Damn Cathedrral in Paris, nearly burnt down, it was so badly damged that it will take millions of Euro and years to rebuild, the roof burnt off and the tower was destroyed. There were workmen working on restorations and they say the fire could have started by them. No one in their right mind would do that on purpose to a 150 year old heritage listed building, because they just don't make them like that any more. Maybe it was getting too expensive in repairs and an arsonest lit it for insurance purposes, maybe it was just an act of God being frustrated with His paritioners that he created an electrical short circuit in the overhead wiring, too many drinks on the house and not enough love to go around, I don't know how, you try and explain it. I am sure that the police will try and work out the cause of the damage and how or who started it. Life is like that, sometimes no matter how hard we try to do the right thing for something or someone we love, we are slapped in the face or kicked in the teeth and all our beautiful possessions and things that we love can be destroyed or go up in smoke. It could have been a loose cigerette that just found enough tinder to destroy nearly the whole thing, an act of carelessness and frivolity. The Government and worthy parisheners have pledged and donated over a hundred million to the rebuilding. If it was an insurance job then the money was probably not needed anyway. So as it now seems to appear, these little fires or big ones in our life are just a way of disturbing and annoying us by damaging our treaured possessions. Fortunately no-one was hurt and injured and nobody got burnt. Sure we can rebuild it, but it will never be exactly the same as before again, no matter how much they spend, even with new materials and better quality and newer woods, they will never be able to replace it or repair it, back into its original condition, it is just a shame and a disgrace that it could happen. Like our everday lives, we do the worng thing and get frustrated with life and then it is just a matter of trying to fix our problems, like putting out fires. We have it all planned out and something goes wrong, a spanner in the works or in this case a live wire or spark that spooked things. So what with and how do we address these things in our daily lives, run around and try to put out the fires or simply be a bit smarter and more clever and try and prevent the fire happening in the first place. When the dog drops a poo on the carpet, you don't hit the dog, but you just have to clean up the mess and use some air freshener, don't you? better to lock the dog outside than have it dirtying the house all the time. You have to think like that in every given situation, don't leave things to chance and take as many precautions as is humanly possibly can for safe keeing. If we just keep on running around form one fire to another, all that happens is that things get burnt and then it is just too late and beyond repair most of the time. We can pull it down and build new ones, but you had better convince the insurance company that you have had nothing to do with starting the fire in the first place or you won't get a brass razoo. I would have written this differently if Notre Damn (a highly loved and respected building) had not happened overnight, but to take and make use of a major news event was too tempting. I would have started off and said, if you play with fires you will get burnt or don't light a fire when you have cans of petrol around. But anyway that is how it turned out and there was suitable writing criteria, I wish that never happened, I would have much rather gone into the depths of despair and anquish by looking at our own inadequacies and inabilities to do the right thing and having to keep fixing our own messes. Have a good, long and hard think about the way that you do things and perhaps you can avoid these pitfalls and tragedies in your life, instead of running around trying to put out fires.