Topic: Passion
pas·sion n.
A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger.
Ardent love.
Strong sexual desire; lust.
The object of such love or desire.
Boundless enthusiasm: His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.
The object of such enthusiasm: Soccer is her passion.
An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger: He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.
The dictionary makes it sound so cold and dry. Passion, a powerful and overwhelming emotion that leaves no room for anything else. It's something that is always there with you no matter where you go and what else you may be doing. We put masks on and pretend that there are other things we think about but that is all they are. Masks.
My father was a surgeon and my mother used to tease him because they would be at a fancy dinner party or a charity ball and he was only partly there. The rest of him was in the hospital with a patient, tying sutures with hands holding a fork and knife or mentally reviewing the steps to a surgery he was going to perform the next day.
There was the love of wife and child and his life but the true passion was medicine and the power in his hands as he held a beating heart and repaired it. He'd never touch another woman but even my mother knew she was second to the medicine as much as he loved her.
For most people when they speak of passion they are talking about the fire in the blood as two or more bodies come together, the fire of skin next to skin and the complete abandon of ecstacy. Maybe that's why someone talks about their true passion they equate it with sex or drugs.. You'll hear a thief talk about how a successful job excited them, like it was a drug and they have to go back and taste from the cup again and again.
If you want to know a person, truly know them, and look beyond the masks they show the rest of the world you need to know their passion. once you know that you know them.
A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger.
Ardent love.
Strong sexual desire; lust.
The object of such love or desire.
Boundless enthusiasm: His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.
The object of such enthusiasm: Soccer is her passion.
An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger: He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.
The dictionary makes it sound so cold and dry. Passion, a powerful and overwhelming emotion that leaves no room for anything else. It's something that is always there with you no matter where you go and what else you may be doing. We put masks on and pretend that there are other things we think about but that is all they are. Masks.
My father was a surgeon and my mother used to tease him because they would be at a fancy dinner party or a charity ball and he was only partly there. The rest of him was in the hospital with a patient, tying sutures with hands holding a fork and knife or mentally reviewing the steps to a surgery he was going to perform the next day.
There was the love of wife and child and his life but the true passion was medicine and the power in his hands as he held a beating heart and repaired it. He'd never touch another woman but even my mother knew she was second to the medicine as much as he loved her.
For most people when they speak of passion they are talking about the fire in the blood as two or more bodies come together, the fire of skin next to skin and the complete abandon of ecstacy. Maybe that's why someone talks about their true passion they equate it with sex or drugs.. You'll hear a thief talk about how a successful job excited them, like it was a drug and they have to go back and taste from the cup again and again.
If you want to know a person, truly know them, and look beyond the masks they show the rest of the world you need to know their passion. once you know that you know them.