Last night I was out gathering firewood, starting a fire for my friend, and it suddenly struck me — why is everything around us wood that burns for five minutes and dies? My friend said, easy-burn wood is good, it lights the fire fast. If all I could pick up was hard-burn wood, how would I ever get coals going? What he said made me think, made me see myself in it. For as long as I can remember, plenty of people — bosses especially — have called me "hot but quick to lose interest." Like these easy-burn logs that go out fast. I used to feel bad when I thought they had a point. But looking again, I've also set plenty of stubborn, hard-burn logs on fire — including him. I burned, and he was right next to me and caught the flame. And I'm happiest when I burn high, burn big. More than when I'm a steady little flame.
Hoping 2018 is the year I run the hardest. Hoping what comes next rekindles the fire.
Confessions of a professional fire-starter.
(the music is playing naturally, it wasn't edited in, you can hear insects chirping in the background, haha)
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