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 their “Plan B’s” never achieve their “Plan A’s”; it’s way too easy to unloose your grip on the bowstring if anything less than a perfect kill shot presents itself. That’s 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 therefore 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 cross back over it again someday, I would say this to them: You’re looking in the wrong direction, Dear Fool; you’re gazing in the arrantly wrong direction! The future rises brightly and boldly on THIS side of the bridge that you just traversed, not back on its distant side. Do you want to explore the awesome thing we call the future…..or do you honestly want to double back in time and relive the past? The future is a sublime gift and that’s why the Arrow of Time runs in only one direction—FORWARD AND TO THE RIGHT!
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