Have you ever heard of the term,

‘You have to burn some bridges to make some’?

Well, imagine your life is like a game.

You are isolated on a piece of land surrounded by thousands of other pieces of land.

Some are bridged with other pieces of land.

Everyone starts with their own piece of land and some bricks,

Some people are lucky and get more bricks than others.

And as you grow and meet other people.

A new bridge gets built.

But, these bridges need to be built with some of your bricks.

So most people have multiple bridges built already at a young age,

But these bridges are quite fragile as they need to be fixed with bricks sometimes,

Just like when you have a conflict with your friend.

You need to try and fix the situation and fix the bridge.

Sometimes after a long period of time and you haven’t really cared about a bridge,

It suddenly just, ... disappears, just like people you haven’t spent much time with.

You might think ‘Then, why even build bridges if they crumble down anyways?’

The reason behind that is that in the game,

There are pieces of land that might team up and attack you, (Bullies)

Having bridges with other lands may give you a better survival chance against them.

There might be a time when you have lots of bridges,

But there also might be a time when you find yourself that you don’t have enough bricks to fix a bridge.

You’ll have to make the decision of whether you want to sacrifice a bridge or if you’ll give up on that one.

In real life this is the decision you’ll need to make when you have a huge argument with a friend that some of your other friends don’t like.

They might decide to attack that friend’s piece of land and you might find yourself in the middle.

They’d want you to choose a side, 

You’d have to burn at least one bridge. . .

Another example is when you have a significant other,

You spend a bunch of bricks,

Building you two together.

But sometimes you realise,

The cost of spending those bricks,

*CRACK!*

. . .

Are the other bridges.

Hence the phrase, 

You have to burn some bridges to make some.

Be careful how you spend your bricks,

As they might be everything you hold dear.

. . .