Death of Passion

I remember writing these words. It was around the time I started my business and they meant something to me. They still do. Many seem to think that passion is the driver of activity, the love for something but how I see it, it is the necessity to act once inspiration strikes. The thunder chasing the lightning so to speak.

Each and every day, we can live with passion, act with passion and work with passion but, it requires inspiration. Where that inspiration is derived and what inspires each individual can differ greatly but what I have found is that it requires creativity. The most mundane event for one can be so filled with meaning for another that they cannot help but act upon it, cannot help but be filled with the energy to move, change, create, grow, expand.

Do you understand this, do you feel it in what you do? Or, like so many, are you acting on automatic pilot, acting on habit and not paying attention to the world that is so filled with potential inspiration a thousand passionate lives are just a drop in the ocean? People are looking for passion whilst they avoid paying attention to the life that is there to inspire them, to be the lightning strikes that make the gaps in the atmosphere for passion to occupy.

Are you experienced? When you do what you do, when you live your life are you living, are you really alive? How would you know if you are continually avoiding? How do you know what true passion is? Do you think it is a nice feeling?

Passion is not positive, nor negative, it just is a source of energy that compels one to act. If you see what you think should change yet are not compelled to act, are you really being honest with yourself, can you claim passion? Or is that complacency? Perhaps there is just too much risk in being passionate these days, too much cost to suffer as one tries to change what people are using to avoid living. To take away their security blanket of illusion.

Change always comes with the price of what is, the status quo, the comfortable. Change is a movement away from what is not moving now and in that act, there is risk as with any move comes uncertainty, unknown, insecurity. It is what makes it all so hard, it is what makes people avoid it at all cost.

At all cost, don't they see? There is a cost to not changing as without change, all stops. The seed never becomes the tree, the child never the adult. Without change, maturity just cannot happen and without change, death comes swiftly.

Yet, where is the lightning in a life of avoidance, how do we expect to change well when we do not even hold the passionate that compels us to change, let alone the understanding through attention of what must change, what must be destroyed now for an improved future?

Passion. There is so little of it in this world now as people entertain their minds and bodies to make themselves feel good and at the slightest gap, they feel hollow. Yet, instead of feeling the heat from the lightning that struck them in that silence and let the thunder rush in, they again fill the space with entertainment to take their attention away from reality.

Where does it lead the world, society, community and the individual when no more lightning strikes are recognised, no more thunder rolls in? What happens when passion dies? Perhaps at that point, the robotic life rules.

I wonder who will be the last standing, the last to fall with passion in their heart.

Taraz
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