So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.
I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
I think it's important to remember that people don't set their lives on fire. They don't walk away from their extraordinarily, extraordinarily comfortable lives ... for no reason.
People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
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