I know you know this cool little side-ball-cap wearing guy with the "thumbs up"! I know you know the amazingly powerful rush of sugar and goodness you receive from your first bite into this amazing gum! And I know you know the very enjoyable five minutes you get before your jaw locks up and you are forced to spit out this piece of gum! Right? I'm not the only one that has this experience with Dubble Bubble, right? LOL! I am being a bit facetious, but while hanging out with some friends tonight I had a conversation that has been my inspiration for this blog.I have known some great "fire starters" in my life. You know these guys/girls... they walk up to a situation in need of a quick fire and they take two rocks and a couple sticks and begin what turns out to be something only Nero could dream of. My friend Neil is one of these guys, a college buddy proved himself to be quite useful in this area and tonight I met a guy who stepped up to the task and showed all of us hanging around the fire how a real fire is started. He huffed and be puffed and he got a HUGE fire going! It was spectacular! It was so brilliant that I had to take a few steps back just to take in the greatness of this fire (actually I got too hot and I began to sweat). Anyway, this fire was nice and big and served its purpose... SMORES!!!!
So, the sun dropped behind the edge of the earth and the fire started to dwindle and everyone around the fire was thinking that this bad boy needed to be stoked up a bit... so our host put in the last big piece of wood and it quickly took off. The night went on and the fire was almost gone again, so Shane (our host) grabbed some smaller pieces of wood (fire starting pieces) so we could have more fire. After about five minutes of brightness, he found himself dipping back into the bag to do this again, and again and again and... well, you get the point. After this routine happened a couple more times, I made the comment, "Shane, those pieces of pinewood (assuming they were pine by the intense smell of pine that we smelt the moment they hit the fire) are like Dubble Bubble. They are good for five minutes and then you got to put another piece in." There was a little laughter, but it got me thinking, so I said, "its kind of like for some relationships too huh? Good for about five minutes and then over." There was more laughter, but sadly to say this is true, isn't it?
We meet people everyday. I've met a ton of people in my life and I have liked the majority of them. But sometimes I find myself going all out in the beginning and making a huge impact and then slowly fade away. Or maybe not even relationships, what about all those "New Year's" resolutions? I don't know how many times I've started a year off in the gym and then fade away. There are so many different things in my life that I started and then, like Dubble Bubble, fade away and I throw out. I can't even tell you how many times I went to Summer Hills church camp, got all excited about serving Jesus, threw out my "worldly" music only to repurchase it a couple months later.
Tonight got me thinking a lot about my life and the bad habit I have of starting something with all my passion and zeal and then topping over and ending it. I don't do this with everything, but enough to get me thinking.
What about you? Have you seen yourself treat things in life like Dubble Bubble?
