Fight Fire with Fire?
We have all heard the expression "Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire"It seems to me that would just cause a bigger fire...Call me crazy but I think you would be better off fighting fire with water.
Maybe that is what the Good Lord meant when he said 'Love your enemy as you would yourself' Its really hard to dislike someone who admires and respects you.
Case in point: I knew this guy awhile back and man he was an energy vampire a 10 minute talk with him would exhaust you. I mean you would feel like you just did a hard days work. I wasn't the only one who felt this way, everyone I knew said the same thing. The thing was though, that he loved everyone. In that aspect he was a better human being than I will ever hope to be.
This man was a homeless person who couldn't stop drinking Listerine or Blister as the drunks called it because it would actually cause blisters on your mouth from its consumption.
Well sadly enough one day my neighbor told me that he had died from his addiction. The antiseptic mouthwash caused an intestinal bleed and he passed out, then bled out behind the store where he bought his last bottle of Blister.
I went to his service a few days after hearing the news and to my amazement there were over 200 people there. I am not joking or exaggerating. It was a big church and it was packed. Even the pastor had to fight back tears as he spoke of my friend.
The only explanation I can think of is that Doug never fought fire with fire. Its was like you could make him cry but you couldnt make him mad.
Its funny but I miss him and those exhausting little talks we use to have. I also wish I could always fight fire with water and not fire, like I do sometimes.
Ill see you later Doug so keep that coffee pot on and will have a long talk then
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He was happy and quite loud but what came out of his mouth was joy. This young woman also rode the bus and she would tell him to quiet down. It would make the make frown but he would quiet down. I probably should have intervened but I didn't because it would have caused an uproar on the bus.
I haven't seen him in a few months but by coincidence a story came out in the newspaper about a friendly transient that was found dead. It went on to talk about this man being happy and having quite a few friends and it described this man so I think that it was the joyful transient that was murdered.
Yes! I agree. Sometimes you do have to fight fire with fire. Rest in peace our homeless friends who get to the point of no return because for some crazy reason they couldn't cope with life.