Everybody always says that burning bridges is bad, because you n ever know if one day, you'll have to cross them again. Which I suppose, usually I can agree with. Like, telling your boss he's a big a$$face and then throwing a handful of mud in his face, probably not a good idea. You never know when you're new boss might fire you for being, oh, I dunno, incompetent, or just plain crazy what with all the mud flinging and you have to try to go back to your old boss and attempt to explain away your insanity.
But we humans also have this concept of "turning over a new leaf". Which sometimes strikes me as sad that our most well-known metaphor for life (besides it being a highway of course) is that it's a leaf. And if you're able to turn it over, probably means it's already fallen off the tree and is just waiting for the snow to fall on it so it can rot into the ground and be used as food for the tree to survive and grow new leaves. Which, is fine if that leaf rotting on the ground is your old life. But not the new one. I think the term should be "grow a new leaf", but that's just my opinion.
Anyway, I digress, so, turning over a new leaf and burned bridges. There are some things in life that you just CAN'T go back to. Like that crazy man down in the subway who gave you advice about the mud throwing? Yeah, not a good idea to cross that bridge again. Burn that shizze down!
So in a nut shell (.....do you know how little would actually fit into a nut shell? Thumbalina, that's about it), in turning over the new leaves of your life, sometimes bridges must be burned. But contain that fire ok? Because smokey the bear gets really sad when your burning bridge ends up igniting the tree shedding the leaves of your new life and then starts a forest fire that ensures you won't find a new leaf for miles and miles and maybe forces you to come full circle and realize that burning bridges is really just a metaphor and shouldn't be taken literally.
Burn baby burn.
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