I used to write more.
6.5 years ago, when I had more time, I wrote this: (http://joshuawilkerson.blogspot.com/2004/10/birds-and-bees-minus-bees.html)
I was bored.
I’m not bored now, but I was letting my mind wander and realized that there are lots of old sayings that our generation doesn’t use. I wish we did, but we don’t…that’s neither here nor there (got one in!)
Everyone should know, “DON’T BURN BRIDGES!” I agree that’s great advice and I know you do too. If we’re talking literally, you still shouldn’t burn any bridges. If you own a bridge, then I guess you could burn it, but I only know a couple of people who own bridges.
[I own one of course and I know a lady, Gladis, who owns at bridge too.]
But if you make a mistake, IT’S JUST WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE. That’s amazing, because if you burn a bridge, there’s water under it, so everything’s kosher.
I’m just not really sure how that pans out. If you burn bridges, it’s just water under the bridge. Let’s see. If you burn a bridge, the flame may be extinguished by the water. Is that what we’re worried about? If so, the fire is under control. It’s probably best that the bridge is burned because any bridge made of flammable material (e.g. wood) is probably too old to travel across. Who builds bridges out of wood nowdays? I wouldn’t trust one of those.
However, if it’s the destroyed path that we’re worried about, it’s also fine. It’s just water under the bridge. I mean, literally is just water. We love water. It makes up 70% of the world. At least we know how to deal with it. It’s almost like a burned bridge. We know how to build bridges. We know how to build boats and rafts.
What it comes down to is the flame of a bridge either gets extinguished by the water under the bridge or the bridge drowns. It just depends upon what your bridge is made of. Maybe you should build your bridges with solid material that doesn’t burn. If that’s not possible with your materials given, maybe you should build them with people who will watch it burn with you and carry the flame somewhere else. Maybe you want someone who will rebuild it with you. Maybe you want someone who will stand on it with you, fighting off the fire until it fails or you succeed.
If the bridge fails, burning into the water under it, there’s always plenty of fish in the sea, which is (most-likely) eventually somehow connected to your water under the bridge. Although, those fish are probably lame. I’d rather be with the person who doesn’t burn bridges and isn’t a fish.
