dullbananas (Joseph Silva)@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAddiction is like a beautiful little warm fire that becomes the destruction of everything you have.message-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up1157arrow-down1message-squareAddiction is like a beautiful little warm fire that becomes the destruction of everything you have.dullbananas (Joseph Silva)@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecheee@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33arrow-down1·1 year agoI like this turn of phrase It is exactly like that. A little warm secret fire in your heart, something that’s yours and brings you comfort but slowly fucking burns everything else to ash.
minus-square🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·1 year agoAnd just like fire, not every fire has to be destructive. If you use the right fuels and keep it under control, you’ll have a safe fireplace.
minus-squareWhiteHawk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoI’d say by the time you can call it an addiction, the fire is already out of control
minus-square🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoVery much obviously. I didn’t account for that part. Addiction is never good. I mentally used fire as a metaphor for medicine
I like this turn of phrase
It is exactly like that. A little warm secret fire in your heart, something that’s yours and brings you comfort but slowly fucking burns everything else to ash.
And just like fire, not every fire has to be destructive. If you use the right fuels and keep it under control, you’ll have a safe fireplace.
I’d say by the time you can call it an addiction, the fire is already out of control
Very much obviously. I didn’t account for that part.
Addiction is never good. I mentally used fire as a metaphor for medicine
Like that, for forests