“You can’t quietly be on fire,” no official attribution cited.  There are some conversations we don’t want to have in our lives like facing the reality of who we are.  Fearing that all the things people said and thought about us were true.  So we hold in and repress and we try to be what everyone wants us to be until our very souls seem to stifle.  We can’t breathe and we feel like we drown under the weight of our own worry.  We fear reaching out to people, we fear what it looks like or what it means, we fear appearing too needy, too concerned with ourselves.  Frankly we are lost in what it means to even ask for help because we are lost as a whole trying to figure out what we are meant to do.  WE have forgotten what real connection is.  The purpose of connection is to help each other lighten the load and bear the burden of life.  We aren’t here to judge each other, we are here to help each other and we are training ourselves to handle what it is we are meant to do, to discover our purpose and to make that our primary focus/goal.  What we have lost sight of, however, is that the goal was always to help each other make this a better place and to share in the beauty and deliciousness that is life together—so we can all experience that joy of being alive. 

We have drowned ourselves in the distraction of life.  When I really look at it, I have started to think the distraction of life was set up with decent intent in the first place as ways to celebrate and share different facets of creativity and joy and connection, different views.  We were all given different points of view in order to see different facets of the world and to consider all the different possibilities of the world.  It’s a beautiful celebration of the mind and the connection people have to the universe and to each other and how we express that connection.  But that distraction took a darker turn once we started settling and modernizing and adapting to what the world did—we started to focus on manipulation as the tactic because we understood power meant dominion.  Once that became the goal, distraction was meant to funnel people into a sort of cage that served other people’s goals.  And that is when the world stared to go made because we lost our connection to ourselves.  We quite literally set ourselves on fire in order to appease what other people wanted and lost sight of what we were here to do in the first place: our personal purpose.

We can’t sit there on fire, miserable in our own worlds, all the while working to make other people satisfied and successful while our purpose shrivels and fades away.  What we give attention to grows and expands and this is a universe of growth.  We are all well aware of what happens when we unite to a common goal.  The force of the energy combines and expands and multiplies and amazing things happen.  When we sit in misery or with any intense emotion on our own, nothing will happen.  People won’t see the flames until it’s too late.  When we first start to feel the burn of desire, follow it.  When we feel the spark of creativity, nourish it.  When we feel the sting of someone else pushing us to the point where our focus and energy is no longer our own, that is the fuel.  The pressure from society to conform to that type of behavior is the match.  When we don’t live up to those expectations that is the fire and it is often a slow burn.  So when we feel ourselves starting to combust and struggling to put out the flames every day, that is when we need to call in reinforcements to help put us out because it will burn us down if we keep it inside for too long.  The only time I want to be on fire is with my purpose, when I get in the flow of creativity and I feel my power and energy directed somewhere.  That is burn with purpose and I don’t ever want to let anyone direct my flame inward.  Fuel my growth, fan the desire, but don’t stifle that flame so it fuels your dream/life/work/goal instead of my own.  Ignite the flame, don’t let it burn us down.