Back burner

Back burner- the condition of being out of active consideration or development; a position of relatively little importance

What’s on your back burner? What are the things you have pushed back in your mind, telling yourself you will get around to it eventually? That you can’t be bothered with it right now.

And how many times do the things on your back burner turn into flaming infernos? Consuming you for the rest of your life?

We all have our own issues on back burners just simmering away in the background. Slowly eating up our energy subconsciously on a physical and spiritual level. When will you make the time to properly attend to what has been stewing within you, within your life all along.

Your personal back burner could be something very plain as not taking care of yourself physically. Allowing your health to deteriorate minute by minute. Every day you decide not to make your health a priority, with the choices of what you put in your body and what you do with your body, you are actually fueling the issue of your health on your back burner. Potentially stoking it into a nightmarish wildfire. Now, that back burner is essentially only a temporary concern, since we are all mortals. Eventually our bodies will die. So it’s just a matter of what physical quality of life you want to enjoy while in your body.

There are long term concerns that people choose to put on their back burners. Relationships is one of them. In my personal opinion, these are not only long term, but eternal. How many of you have put a relationship on the back burner of your life. There are as many reasons for people to not tend to their relationships as there are people alive. Maybe it’s too painful to interact with that particular person, so you chose to put it on your back burner. Maybe you were so hurt, that anger still guides your decisions. Maybe you just gave up. Here’s the thing. Finding a resolution for any of your relationships while the other person(s) is still alive, will inhibit that back burner from erupting. Preventing turning your choices of leaving any relationship unresolved into permanent regrets. I understand that some relationships are not able to come to a resolution. That is when you have to make the decision that indeed it is not the other person that you have to come to terms with, but the relationship itself, how you view it and how you feel about it. Essentially all relationships ought to be handled that way. Coming from your end being at peace with how you interact with each individual.

The energy consumed by your personal back burners is so much more than the energy you use to handle things in your life that you are willing to address. Slowly depleting your mojo. Your joie de vivre. Your life force evaporating in ways that does not sustain your essence.

There is another huge item people choose to put on their personal back burner. The choice of putting on hold their life’s purpose. Their dreams. I’m not talking about becoming rich and famous. I’m not talking about receiving international accolades for what you do. No. I am talking about your passion. What drives you. What brings you to life. What makes you forget that you exist? That is your reason for being. Here. Now. Yes, we all are in that mindset that we have to be gainfully employed in order to make something of ourselves in this society. But you don’t have to do that to make it in the world. Life only asks of you to be who you came here to be. People put that on their personal back burner all the time. Becoming entrapped in things that they choose to make a higher priority, while their talents are simmering away on their back burner. By the time most people remember what it is that is scorching away on their back burner, their energy and drive has been depleted to such an extend that they choose not to make the effort to live out what they came here for.

So what is slowly simmering away on your back burner?