Inside The Fire

Over the past several years, I have tried to make every moment of my life count, though that is sometimes challenging to remember. Life is simply too short not to live in every opportunity. I have often found that it is easy to live your life from moment to moment not really focusing on anything more important than to-do lists. There is a giant difference in living your life, enjoying each drop it can offer, and living to complete daily activities and routines. It is easy to become so accustomed to completion of petty tasks that you get caught up in not really living to experience what life has to offer. It is the experience and growth that matters, not the completion you find in the end.

Therefore, I have always connected to the following song lyrics. Old? Yep. Out of contexts? Possibly. Depends on how you hear it. Nothing beats an old Garth Brooks song.

Find it here.

"So hell bent on living, walking a wire,

Convinced it's not living if you're standing outside the fire.

Standing outside the fire.

Standing outside the fire.

Life is not tried, it's just merely survived

If you're standing outside the fire.

There's a love that is burning, deep in my soul,

Constantly yearning to get out of control,

Wanting to fly, higher and higher.

I can't abide

Standing outside the fire."