Newsflash: Passion Back In Fashion, Apathy SO Two Weeks Ago! Hello~!
I am so grateful for rekindling my passion. I can't believe I let it go. Only about a week ago I started to get it back, and brought it back over the weekend to the fully thriving and dancing fire it has been before. I guess I ought to have been careful about what I wished for. Didn't I try not to care? I really did try. And it worked. And what did I do to fill that empty, needing space? Filled it with fantasy, deluged it in dreams-all just to escape that horrible, hollow feeling. Apathy really is as deadly as I always said it was. Perhaps I just had to "try it on for size" myself? Well, it really should have been labeled with a tag, so that I would have known the size was "Diminutive and Shrinking." How can people live under the encroaching cloak of apathy all the time? It has me contemplating the various means people employ to fill the space where passion should be in their lives. Apathy. Not good for me. Not good for you. What about all that time that I was neglecting my work? My self-work and my work in the world? And all those precious moments of life given to draining dreams instead to what feeds me, what serves me, what helps me get what I desire out of life, what makes me full of awe and overjoyed to be delighting in all life has to offer? Well, I know what caused those depths of passion in me to dry out so thoroughly. I don't want to ever be so thirsty again. I feel so thankful to have come back from that. I feel like Lazarus. I won't repeat that same Lazarus quote again, but I'm also reminded of a certain line of a song about rising up and not dreaming anymore. It feels like coming home after a long and terrible excursion away from it. Sweet relief. Beyond belief. It's filling and enlivening. It's beauty, peace, hope, love, joy, desire, lust, and empowerment returning all together to fuel that passion fire, to water that passion flower. I am passion.
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”-Oscar Wilde
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”-Angela Monet
“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.”-Earl Nightingale
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.”-Federico Fellini
“When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.”-Anonymous
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”-Oscar Wilde
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”-Angela Monet
“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.”-Earl Nightingale
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.”-Federico Fellini
“When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.”-Anonymous