Fire
I was just doing some court cases and suddenly the phrase "Burn it down" popped into my head.
So I went to see what song I was thinking of...my first try was 311's 'Beautiful Disaster.' Alas, that wasn't the phrase - "Today seems like a good day to burn a bridge or two." So I continued my search. 311's 'Eons' perhaps? No, that was "Shut it down." So I googled it with no luck...the first two pages of results were from bands I'd never heard of. Finally I found it. Death Cab for Cutie's 'Your Heart Is An Empty Room.' So I looked at the rest of the lyrics for that song. Holy crap. I absolutely love that song right now.
The flames and smoke climbed out of every window
And disappeared with everything that you held dear
And you shed not a single tear for the things that you didn't need
Cause you knew you were finally free
So yeah, it is odd that suddenly I just thought, "Burn it down." But I do enjoy fire. Especially now that winter is fast approaching, it seems to have brought that particular enjoyment out. And I have always marvelled at fire. It is very simple, but I think (oftentimes) that it mirrors humans, life, and/or the world extremely well, sometimes as an event, sometimes as a cycle.
As a cycle it is like life in that every time the fire (the quick, powerful, violently different event) occurs, it serves to burn out impurities and make room for new growth. It's kind of an idealistic view - that new growth could be bad. Leave it for the next flame.
Fire mirrors events in our life. Those all-consuming moments. When nothing matters except the act of doing. Isn't it in the moments of greatest emotion, greatest passion, that our true natures come out? When all of our logic and reasoning and barriers are burnt down that we are revealed?
Honestly if that is true I do not know what that would say about me. Sometimes my moments of greatest anger are also my moments of greatest calm, when I am most lucid in my thought and deft in my action. Other times it leads me into a reckless abandon. When you feel like you are so full of fury that if you walked into a blazing fire the flames would not harm you, so close are they in nature to your own internal state.
Anger is not the only emotion that I would put under the heading of "Powerful Emotions," but for the sake of time and my poor little digits I'll assume that you also know what it is like to be human.
I once saw this line in a book and it gave me goosebumps - "All things burn."
*shakes head* Anyhow. I like watching fire. No, I'm not a pyro. No, I don't have a bleak outlook on the self-destructive nature of mankind. Those are just the kind of things that I think about sometimes when watching fire. And in about three hours I'm gonna get to see a nice conflagration at Mr. Hill's house.
Back to court cases.
-Travis
So I went to see what song I was thinking of...my first try was 311's 'Beautiful Disaster.' Alas, that wasn't the phrase - "Today seems like a good day to burn a bridge or two." So I continued my search. 311's 'Eons' perhaps? No, that was "Shut it down." So I googled it with no luck...the first two pages of results were from bands I'd never heard of. Finally I found it. Death Cab for Cutie's 'Your Heart Is An Empty Room.' So I looked at the rest of the lyrics for that song. Holy crap. I absolutely love that song right now.
The flames and smoke climbed out of every window
And disappeared with everything that you held dear
And you shed not a single tear for the things that you didn't need
Cause you knew you were finally free
So yeah, it is odd that suddenly I just thought, "Burn it down." But I do enjoy fire. Especially now that winter is fast approaching, it seems to have brought that particular enjoyment out. And I have always marvelled at fire. It is very simple, but I think (oftentimes) that it mirrors humans, life, and/or the world extremely well, sometimes as an event, sometimes as a cycle.
As a cycle it is like life in that every time the fire (the quick, powerful, violently different event) occurs, it serves to burn out impurities and make room for new growth. It's kind of an idealistic view - that new growth could be bad. Leave it for the next flame.
Fire mirrors events in our life. Those all-consuming moments. When nothing matters except the act of doing. Isn't it in the moments of greatest emotion, greatest passion, that our true natures come out? When all of our logic and reasoning and barriers are burnt down that we are revealed?
Honestly if that is true I do not know what that would say about me. Sometimes my moments of greatest anger are also my moments of greatest calm, when I am most lucid in my thought and deft in my action. Other times it leads me into a reckless abandon. When you feel like you are so full of fury that if you walked into a blazing fire the flames would not harm you, so close are they in nature to your own internal state.
Anger is not the only emotion that I would put under the heading of "Powerful Emotions," but for the sake of time and my poor little digits I'll assume that you also know what it is like to be human.
I once saw this line in a book and it gave me goosebumps - "All things burn."
*shakes head* Anyhow. I like watching fire. No, I'm not a pyro. No, I don't have a bleak outlook on the self-destructive nature of mankind. Those are just the kind of things that I think about sometimes when watching fire. And in about three hours I'm gonna get to see a nice conflagration at Mr. Hill's house.
Back to court cases.
-Travis