Life is like our flame, with our flame we carry all of our prejudices, all of our knowledge and experiences. It is commonplace for people to share the light, and each flame burns brighter with the more experiences you feed into it.
Intellectuals and academics ritualize the process of increasing the intensity of their respective flames, and it grows and withers depending on how your flame is cared. We may find ourselves in a mental standstill in our lives, but it is instinctive to satisfy the hunger of our flames.
You may very well share your flame, but not everyone is so lucky. It seems that though some may be burning very brightly, like a beacon, there will always be the places of darkness. Some people don’t even realize their flame until it is only embers, in fact.
Even more necessary is that you must continue the burn. For when you part from this grave and wondrous reality, your flame extinguishes – only to leave embers behind. Many great philosophers and thinkers of our peoples still have the embers slowly burning, and others keep burning strong through the words and discoveries of those long deceased. It is the nature of humanity.
You may do what you wish with your flame, but it is far more noble to continue the flame. You may seek your own personal truths, but humanity will always be waiting for its savior to cleanse itself with the fire. We have some serious undergrowth that needs to be purged. I fear the light grows dimmer with every day’s passing.
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