 here's something interesting about forest fires you know people have been trying to prevent forest fires for a long time especially that damn bear smokey right he's trying to prevent forest fires and so because forest fires burn up the forest and that can't be good but here's what happens if you don't let forest fires burn is that well forests collect a lot of dry branches right because tree branches die and wood falls on the forest floor and collects and so the amount of flammable material keeps increasing with time and that's not so bad if it's wet but if the amount of flammable material is increasing and it gets really dry and then it burns then you have a real problem the forest fire can burn so hot that it burns this topsoil right off in which case you don't have a forest at all anymore you just have a desert and lots of trees are evolved to withstand forest fires of a certain intensity and some won't even release their seeds unless there's been a fire and so a little bit of fire at the right time can stop everything from burning to the ground and that's also a really useful insight a metaphorical insight into the nature of sacrifice right it's also a lot easier to let go of something when you're deciding to let go of it because you've decided yourself that it's you're done with that it's a weak part of you it needs to disappear you do that yourself it's much better and much easier than it is if it's taken away from you forcibly in which case you're very much likely to fight it