Rise From The Ashes

Someone once said, ~Love, like a wildfire, can ignite unexpectedly, spreading rapidly through your heart, leaving you breathless and transformed.~ Without a doubt, a painful heartbreak, like a raging wildfire, are synonymous with each other because they’re not only totally unexpected, but have the ability to leave a deeply charred, as well as scorched path of utter destruction in its wake. Of course, it depends on the type of wildfire raging within one’s heart along with any potentially toxic elements in one’s mind and soul that has the propensity to be a dangerous combination, which is considered absolutely combustible. For it can certainly be a disastrous situation indeed when you’re unable to predict as a “firefighter” how a person mentally/emotionally reacts after a painful heartbreak that ends up creating the fiery flames of their thoughts, feelings, and/or emotions, which could possibly spread in any direction.

As I said before, it can certainly be a disastrous situation indeed when you’re unable to predict as a “firefighter” how a person mentally/emotionally reacts after a painful heartbreak that ends up creating the fiery flames of their thoughts, feelings, and/or emotions, which could possibly spread in any direction. In other words, proceed with caution knowing the flames of negativity will strike at any moment. I think it’s safe to say when someone reacts negatively in an unpredictable way after a painful heartbreak, you never really know which direction he/she will be heading in regard to the emotional and mental flames of turmoil you’ll end up encountering. Essentially, it’s considerably difficult in trying to predict/figure out what direction he/she is going because of how there can be a quick and sometimes sudden "wind" shift in their erratic attitude/behavior, which makes it such an unpredictable wildcard to face off against, so to speak.

If you think about it, there’s a tremendous amount of difficulty in trying to control/handle an oftentimes raging wildfire of someone’s thoughts, feelings, and/or emotions, especially when it involves heartbreak that’s utterly painful. Why? Oftentimes, it may seem easy as a “firefighter” in being able to strategize and at the same time fully focusing as a whole on trying to control/handle putting out the pockets of flames on one particular area at a time. Anger, hatred, anxiety, fear, doubt, worry, insecurity, sadness, frustration, bitterness, disappointment, utter contempt, etc. represent those pockets of flame within your own heart that are considerably problematic individually instead of as a whole. You see, it’s never easy when you think you were able to get the fires of a painful heartbreak extinguished and under control only to find yourself dealing with another fire unexpectedly popping up somewhere else.

Let me ask this question concerning: what are the unhealthy risks of a raging wildfire firefighters or people in general end up suffering from after breathing in the toxic air? If you answered lung cancer, memory loss, asthma, headaches, nausea, dizziness, heart attack, stroke, dementia, etc. then you’d be correct. Thinking about it further, when trying to put out the raging fires of a painful heartbreak you do your best to avoid “inhaling” the negative air of a person’s previously mentioned pockets of individual toxic flames. Unfortunately, not even a hazmat suit is able to fully protect you from being exposed by the flames of negativity. However, if you’re truly a friend it’s a risk worth taking knowing you’re putting your own mental, emotional, physical, spiritual health/well-being in harm’s way to help/save someone from not only burning up in flames, but having everything/everyone else around him/her burned beyond recognition.

In retrospect, you don’t have to be an elite level firefighter or smokejumper when you’re considered an experienced veteran. An experienced veteran who, in a sense, has battled the raging wildfires of an incredibly painful, broken hearted friend hell bent on an all out fiery wrath of devastation. For the most part, it’s just a matter of having the utmost patience and unwavering determination to not give up on someone who intentionally wants to recklessly go scorched earth. What it primarily comes down to is being by their side and letting that person burn up all the negative toxic fuel until nothing is left to the point where the devastatingly chaotic rage from within gradually dies/burns itself out. In the end, when the dust eventually settles and the smoke gradually clears, a person's heart that was once painfully broken will rise from the ashes again thanks to someone who took the heat instead of retreating for their own safety.