What it is to burn

I cannot burn for I was bloomed in fire, a fire that can be everything and nothing at the same time. We use fire to describe so many things in our lives, sometimes it is bad, and other times it is good. The one similarity that all uses of the term have is passion. Passion is what gives us our motivation, our purpose, our sense of self. If you think about it, when you are in pain of the emotional variety every raising hair on your body seems to be electric, you can feel every fiber of your being screaming out in agony. Now think of when you are in love, and that person loves you back, the very breeze on your skin feels like a tidal wave of sense. I used to think that we as humans were flawed creatures because our most intense feeling is pain, looking at how many words and ways we describe pain, then looking at how many words we have to describe happiness its natural to feel that way. But i've since drawn a new conclusion, pain is just as vital to our existence as happiness. If we were to never know the stench of rot, would a beautiful flower smell as sweet? The rain in the trees cannot smell as fresh if we dont smell everything else there is among the trees that isn't pleasant. Pain is a vital tool in our struggle to find a balance. Life is not perfect, it is impossible for us to be happy all of the time. Its being ok with being unhappy sometimes and knowing its ok to be happy too that should be every person's goal in this world. There are many facets of our being that we must acknowledge and accept in order to strike a balance with the universe, to understand pain's role in this and find beauty and happiness in the smallest detail is our directive. In living a life deliberate, a person has to see everything and nothing and know that it is alright to do so. I cannot burn for I was bloomed in fire means that thru the pain i've experienced in my life I have learned to be happy, I have become strong in the face of something that would seek to break me at my very core. I am invincible because I accept pain as just another part of the learning and growing cycle.