Burning bridges is not necessarily a bad thing. You’ll run across a lot of bridges in life that are rotten to the core and deserve nothing better than to be annihilated as quickly as possible. Individuals who chronically scramble to preserve all of their “Plan B’s” never achieve their “Plan A’s”. That is not to say you should burn every bridge once you cross over it–to do so would be reckless and woefully myopic–but certain bridges are not worth keeping and should be immediately destroyed. And for those well-intentioned but imbecilic recreants who insist you should leave every bridge you cross intact lest you may want to return back over it some day, I would say this to them: You are looking in the wrong direction, Dear Fool; you are gazing in the arrantly wrong direction! The future rises bright and bold on THIS side of that bridge you just traversed, not back on its distant side. Do you want to explore this awesome thing we call the future…..or do you honestly want to turn back and relive the past…..?
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