You can put a fire out.
Think about fire fighters, extinguishers, etc. These are things made specifically for putting fire out.
A fire, given fuel and oxygen, will continue burning forever, UNLESS some other force acts on the fire to extinguish the flames.
The fire would probably rather NOT be put out.
Has anyone ever put your fire out? Have you ever come home from camp or a retreat or something of the sort and just felt "on fire?" Have you ever felt like life is the best it can possibly be, and you are out there just living it up... and then someone says or does one thing that completely puts the fire out?
We never know whose flames we kill or whose dreams we may destroy by one simple word, look, sigh or gesture.
One thing I, personally, have been trying to work on lately is enhancing situations. I don't want to be the voice of disappointment. I don't want to destroy peoples' ideas with my words (even if they may be words of wisdom or teaching). I want to squirt lighter fluid on peoples' dreams!
Go out today and find someone on fire and find a way to fan their flames; do not quench their fire, help them to burn!
"A little fire is quickly trodden out, which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench."
- William Shakespeare
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