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Life Lessons from a Burning Cigarette Stick
Life comes in 4 stages — the burned, the burning, the unburned, and the burned out (chaff)
“Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.” Psalmist
A smoker wants nothing from a cigarette other than the smoke. The smoker tries as much as possible to engage the burning smoke in the mouth as it burns.
Life burns out just like a burning cigarette. Immediately we are born into this life, the clock begins to tick for us, and just like the lighted cigarette, we burn gradually.
I am not a smoker. I have never smoked and I don't intend to smoke in the future. I just want to draw an analogy of stages of human existence on the earth using a burning cigarette stick.
Cigarette begins to burn immediately it is lighted. Once a cigarette has been lighted, it begins to serve its purpose which is supplying nicotine and chemical addictive substances to the user. Life begins immediately we are born into the earth.
Let’s take a look at the four stages a lighted cigarette stick passes. We shall compare them to the four stages of human lives and draw life lessons from it.
