5 Elements: Fire
“Sky above me. Earth below me. Fire within me”. I have always loved this quote, but have never admired it to the extent I do with the continuous knowledge I receive from this course. Fire is correlated with summer, a time I would typically spend on the beach drawing me closer to my happy place: the ocean. Summer is a time of joy; playful in the sun. Red is its color, making me think of something very interesting. At sixteen I moved out of my mothers house, into my uncles…after a year we moved into a new house where I was given the opportunity to make this new room mine. I had never really connected to the color red, but for some reason I felt the urge to color the walls a deep, passionate red. It created a blissful mood that I had never experienced before. Naturally I think of the crackling of a fire when it comes to sound, but I understand why the sound correlated is laughter. I connect it to when my partner makes me laugh…it is this bubbly, rosy cheeked, joyous laughter that I don’t get from anyone or anything else. He ignites the fire inside my laughter. Odor has been the more difficult for me to relate to. I know scorched is the obvious smell for fire, but I found it difficult to think of burning in relation to joy. Then I thought of the smell of fresh cut cedar burning in the fire pit…or the smell of matched blown out; both simple pleasures that ignite joy within me. This brings me right into fires emotion…joy, or the lack of joy. Looking at my current relationship we go through different phases of fire. There is that passionate, sensual fire that keeps us together. The fire that sparked when we first met and continues to grow, making us stronger. However, being a relationship of two years there are times I find fire in the sense of anger. It is still a form of passion, but it looks a lot different. There are times we both have a strong sense of self, we hold true to our individual passions that sometimes conflict with the others. Finding a balance of both is what makes our relationship healthy and able to continue to grow.