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Put Out the Fire or Fan the Flames?
What you do when the world around you seems to be burning down matters, and not just for you.
When you are absolutely overwhelmed by bad news on many different levels, from the impersonal of the world scene to the personal involving death, illness, and pain, it’s difficult not to see the world as being on fire.
What do you do when the world appears to be on fire?
It is all too easy to let anger, hurt, pain, dismay, distress, and other negative emotions control you. I am not saying that you shouldn’t FEEL these emotions — you need to, it’s a part of human nature. But you have a choice about if they control you or not.
In the age of outrage culture and the immediacy of social media, it’s too easy to be shown things that will send you on a downward spiral. All you have to do is read headlines and it sure as hell looks like the world is on fire (in some instances quite literally.) As such, it’s really easy to feel sad, disenchanted, and outright hopeless.
When you start to feel that way you still get to choose if you will lash out and fan the flames…or seek a means to help extinguish the fire. You ALWAYS have this choice, even though it may not always appear to be so.
