"Don't burn bridges."

Why? Why keep connections with things or people that are doing you more harm than good? If you don't burn them, you'll keep crossing them and eventually they are going to fall on their own and you might end up going down with it.

I've always been someone who "burns bridges," and I have always been told that I shouldn't. My mindset has always been to not hold onto people or things that aren't benefiting you. Of course you need to have hardships in order to learn and you need to be hurt a few times in order to find your strength but there is no point in keeping those things in your life that were only there to cause you just enough pain in order to teach you something.

By holding onto the past, you aren't allowing yourself enough room to grow. Burning a few bridges might be totally necessary for you to move forward and accomplish your goals. This could be in a friendship, in a relationship, in a job, anything, really. You can thank the bridges that got you where you are but then it's time to put your focus forward right after you light the match and send that old bridge up in flames.

For a short time, I held onto every single person and thing in my life because I had a fear that I might need what they offer someday. I held onto the very things that were holding me back from who I was and who I wanted to become. The moment I let go of old ties was the moment that I completely grew as a person, and I never felt the desire to go back to those things that I thought I needed.

So, maybe burning bridges isn't such a bad thing. After all, it will stop you from going back to people and places you were never supposed to be in the first place.