Fire is one of the most therapeutic, fantastic, inspiring elements on the planet (to me). It provides warmth, light, positiveness, and burns away that which we choose to no longer hold onto. How awesome is that?!
We sat out by our fire-pit for a couple hours tonight ... so relaxing and lovely. There is truly something about sitting beside a live fire (not the "fake" gas enabled ones) that simply calms one's senses, The warmth, the solidness of the logs, the disintegration of anything you happen to throw into it, the beauty of the flames and the glowing embers. It is truly an organic beauty of an experience.
In work, in school, in family dynamics, in life, are we not similar to the embers and the flames? There are many moments that any of us is "smoldering" ... figuring things out but not yet ready to let loose. Then there's the "glowing". So many people "glow" in society but may not realize that they are "warming" those around them. How unfortunate that they don't realize their worth with regards to everyone they encounter.
The loveliness of the fire and the logs, the dancing flames randomly working themselves through the barriers that might otherwise keep them from the air, which makes those flames further reaching. How many of us are filled with "fire" to accomplish something, be it a task or job or goal, but in order to achieve that which we desire we must randomly work our way through multiple barriers? I know it happens to me. I also know that those dancing, frolicking, colorful flames are similar to the alternative arenas in which I tend to look for "the way through" .... is that true for anyone else? Is how we look to find a way through situations that may challenge us or stress us indicative of our own colorful personalities?
What about the smoke that rises like ghosts out of what is being disintegrated from something like a fire-pit? What if we took the potential energy of the embers and combined it with the expending energy of the smoke ghosts? Would it create something unworldly in our minds or imaginations? Would any of us have the courage to act upon it?
As far as I can see, it's all subjective. Everything in this world is how one actively chooses to view things. A rainy day can be viewed as a deterrent, or an opportunity to meander in the rain while playing like a happy child in the puddles ... a social media comment that denotes something that goes completely against everything you hold dear can be viewed as a depressant that keeps you up all night, or a challenge to be the better person that helps you look yourself in the mirror each morning ... a voice mail or text or letter that says derogatory things can either cause you to believe you're not good enough, or something that lights those embers underneath you to start a fire flame that simply burns with warmth toward humankind and refuses to put forth ghosts of smoke to blind others in its path.
Isn't it, essentially, up to each and every one of us to determine our reactions to every situation?
Simply my thoughts as I stare at the lovely, warm disintegrating embers of this fire that I enjoyed for most of the evening. Feel free to come to your own conclusions.
~ The Girl In The Little Black Dress
We sat out by our fire-pit for a couple hours tonight ... so relaxing and lovely. There is truly something about sitting beside a live fire (not the "fake" gas enabled ones) that simply calms one's senses, The warmth, the solidness of the logs, the disintegration of anything you happen to throw into it, the beauty of the flames and the glowing embers. It is truly an organic beauty of an experience.
In work, in school, in family dynamics, in life, are we not similar to the embers and the flames? There are many moments that any of us is "smoldering" ... figuring things out but not yet ready to let loose. Then there's the "glowing". So many people "glow" in society but may not realize that they are "warming" those around them. How unfortunate that they don't realize their worth with regards to everyone they encounter.
The loveliness of the fire and the logs, the dancing flames randomly working themselves through the barriers that might otherwise keep them from the air, which makes those flames further reaching. How many of us are filled with "fire" to accomplish something, be it a task or job or goal, but in order to achieve that which we desire we must randomly work our way through multiple barriers? I know it happens to me. I also know that those dancing, frolicking, colorful flames are similar to the alternative arenas in which I tend to look for "the way through" .... is that true for anyone else? Is how we look to find a way through situations that may challenge us or stress us indicative of our own colorful personalities?
What about the smoke that rises like ghosts out of what is being disintegrated from something like a fire-pit? What if we took the potential energy of the embers and combined it with the expending energy of the smoke ghosts? Would it create something unworldly in our minds or imaginations? Would any of us have the courage to act upon it?
As far as I can see, it's all subjective. Everything in this world is how one actively chooses to view things. A rainy day can be viewed as a deterrent, or an opportunity to meander in the rain while playing like a happy child in the puddles ... a social media comment that denotes something that goes completely against everything you hold dear can be viewed as a depressant that keeps you up all night, or a challenge to be the better person that helps you look yourself in the mirror each morning ... a voice mail or text or letter that says derogatory things can either cause you to believe you're not good enough, or something that lights those embers underneath you to start a fire flame that simply burns with warmth toward humankind and refuses to put forth ghosts of smoke to blind others in its path.
Isn't it, essentially, up to each and every one of us to determine our reactions to every situation?
Simply my thoughts as I stare at the lovely, warm disintegrating embers of this fire that I enjoyed for most of the evening. Feel free to come to your own conclusions.
~ The Girl In The Little Black Dress
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