Getting angry is like striking a tiny match. It is fire but usually short lived. True some matches are longer than others, but in time the flame still burns out. No matter the strength of the flame it will burn out and in time you forget why you were ever mad. Maybe after a few minutes, a few months or a few years. Maybe you won't forget about why you were mad but the anger usually dies out with the match. But if we aren't careful about what we do with our matches we cause damage that outlives the matches, and even the memory of the anger itself. If we don't watch our matches we burn the people around us and they won't forget the burns left from the matches. Too many burns leaves a lasting impression of the type of person we are choosing to be in the world. We remember the burns that we receive and hardly remember the burns we leave in the wake of our short lived angers.
Until the people of this world start worrying more about the burns we are causing instead of the ones we are receiving the world won't change for the better and will slowly spiral down into bigger flames of anxiety, fear, sadness, segregation, discrimination, contempt, corruption, hatred, violence, and pain. Which threatens our future as a people. These fires are just as dangerous as the ones scattered across the world consuming our forests and lands.
We owe it to ourselves to strive for a world of tranquility, courage, happiness, acceptance, tolerance, fairness, understanding, affection, justice, love, peace and well-being.
We deserve to thrive. To prosper.
Mind the matches, forgive the burns.
