Put the Fire Out from Inside the House

It’s all a system, a game, rather.

For a long time, we played, and a few of us played with success and tremendous personal gain. Many of those before us paid with time and life and are silently mourned. But I have learned that you have to be in the system to fix the system. You must know who plays the designed system. How the designed system is played. Where the designed system is played. But most critical is learning people well enough to understand why they play the designed system. Once inside, you use the system to change the system, process by process. Step by step. Moment by moment.

You put the fire out from inside the house. The problem is that far too few of us get this unspoken, but all are fully aware of the rules. Some of us need to understand our grace and purpose in the system. As to not get lost to the system. But when you want to change something, you want to make a difference. Learn. Learn what is happening, where it is happening, how it’s happening, who’s it happening to, when it happens, and why. It is, perhaps, the only time you’ll have to put the fire out from inside the house. 

I KEEP six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When 
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest. 

-Source: Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories (1902)