When I was very young, maybe 5 or 6, I was terrified of thunderstorms. My dad (an Electronics Engineer) tried to explain to me that the thunder was just the sound caused by the lightning superheating the air. I looked at him like, huh?
My mom stepped in and said that lightning was really just a crack in the sky, and if you look very quickly, you can get a glimpse of Heaven.
I lost my fear of storms and would stay up listening to the rain and watching for cracks in the sky.
Many years later, I began to study electricity and electronics in particular, and lightning still fascinates me to this day.