{"sf1_id":1229480,"sf2_id":"rn9voBK1","title":"Life of a Mortal","author":"LuciaEvaDamora","words":594,"posted_at":"2017-08-21T02:58:00.000Z","tags":["Air","Emotions","Fire","balance","earth","elements","life","water"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1229480-life-of-a-mortal","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rn9voBK1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/1a/38/1a38da8d-ce6c-4da8-baa6-ab7cfafc1efe","description":"","content":"All\u0026nbsp;I wish in this world is to have a friend who will\u0026nbsp;truly\u0026nbsp;accept me\u0026nbsp;for\u0026nbsp;who I am.\u0026nbsp;Two lives I live, one on the surface and shallow waters. The second, in deeper waters where no\u0026nbsp;one understands my life, even when I allow someone to take a step in the deep water.\u0026nbsp;\n\nMy\u0026nbsp;personality\u0026nbsp;is so rare, that you will almost never see it in any other person. Most people have traits that complement each other, like fire and air, earth and water. Others just have\u0026nbsp;varying\u0026nbsp;degrees\u0026nbsp;of those element combinations, or only one element\u0026nbsp;within\u0026nbsp;their soul. I have all four, each complementing and\u0026nbsp;disagreeing\u0026nbsp;with each other at the same time, like fire and water, earth and air.\u0026nbsp;\n\nFire is the element of emotion,\u0026nbsp;especially\u0026nbsp;being\u0026nbsp;stubborn\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;impulsive. For me,\u0026nbsp;fire is constantly being snuffed out by water, and air is constantly protecting\u0026nbsp;fire. Fire and air complement each other in traits such as being patient and impulsive.\u0026nbsp;Patience\u0026nbsp;allows\u0026nbsp;impulsiveness to withstand itself to only being helpful, like a doctor\u0026nbsp;saving a\u0026nbsp;patient\u0026nbsp;in critical need of medical attention.\u0026nbsp;Impulsiveness\u0026nbsp;keeps patience from taking over, and the same for\u0026nbsp;patience\u0026nbsp;keeping impulsiveness from\u0026nbsp;taking over.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\nEarth is the element of life, being caring and\u0026nbsp;compassionate. Air always finds\u0026nbsp;a way\u0026nbsp;to blow down the plants and wildlife earth has worked so hard to build over the centuries. Water gives earth the strength to regrow and repopulate the devastated area. Though water and earth are almost always present with each other within the same person. You can't be caring and compassionate without the strength that water gives to earth. Having\u0026nbsp;someone that is purely earth is quite rare, they can also be strong and defiant.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\nWater is the element of strength, almost always present with earth. Fire, always losing to water, will always find some way to defeat water. Earth will help the water fight back against the fire raging within someone to keep in under control, snuffing in out so it will never light again. Earth will always help water, and water will always help earth. Containing the water within you can be\u0026nbsp;tiresome, but will also grant you\u0026nbsp;intelligence\u0026nbsp;and the ability to understand people with air or earth within another, and only earth or air, alone within the person.\u0026nbsp;\n\nAir is the element of freedom, and is\u0026nbsp;rarely\u0026nbsp;seen with earth. Water is constantly\u0026nbsp;defending\u0026nbsp;earth and\u0026nbsp;attacking air for its attack on earth. Fire fights earth and water, a losing battle from\u0026nbsp;the start, for fire is weak to earth and water. Though fire constantly tries to protect air, fire always loses unless fire found a weakness in the strong bonds of earth and water. Waters weakness lies in its ability to protect and help earth, and earth returns the favor. Water can be boiled away if fire has time to heat it.\u0026nbsp;\n\nFor me, it's\u0026nbsp;an\u0026nbsp;inner\u0026nbsp;battle, a fight for dominance within. Sometimes each element will show itself\u0026nbsp;though\u0026nbsp;my actions and emotions, but the other elements will\u0026nbsp;constantly\u0026nbsp;try to show their, and only their actions and\u0026nbsp;emotions. Fire shows\u0026nbsp;stubbornness\u0026nbsp;and impulsiveness, earth shows\u0026nbsp;defiance\u0026nbsp;and compassion, water shows\u0026nbsp;intelligence\u0026nbsp;and cold isolation, and air shows\u0026nbsp;patience\u0026nbsp;and a\u0026nbsp;lonely\u0026nbsp;life.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\nAll four\u0026nbsp;makes my\u0026nbsp;personality\u0026nbsp;unstable, making\u0026nbsp;me unstable.\u0026nbsp;No one understands me. No one can understand me. My wish is\u0026nbsp;impossible, I can't\u0026nbsp;control\u0026nbsp;all four of the elements within me, no one can. That makes me unable to be like other people, making me different from everyone. I am an outcast, unable to be like the others, unable to escape being\u0026nbsp;lonely\u0026nbsp;and depressed. There will be no connection to other people, I can't be one or two elements at the same time without the others trying\u0026nbsp;to come out, showing themselves.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\nI\u0026nbsp;can't be one element because\u0026nbsp;it's\u0026nbsp;impossible to only show one.\u0026nbsp;I have to show all four at once, finding a balance with the four elements. Balance is key to center your soul.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n  \n\n"}