Passion

What is passion to you? I find the definition to be pretty on point with my rant this evening: strong and barely controllable emotion.

I would consider myself a great judge of character. It has been only because of my hardships, and my lack of self confidence growing up that I was gullible to a fault, and wanted to only see the good in people. I now look past that and try to see all sides of peoples intentions and peoples demeanor.

I love the quote, "You are who you associate with", and I live my life by this saying. To me, if you want to know who you are, you should just look at the people around you and they will tell you exactly what you need to know. I find myself surrounded by kind-hearted, passionate people. I seem to be drawn to these kinds of people the most. I look up to passionate people. I even strive to achieve goals based on the fact that others tried passionately and some succeeded.

In my own view, passion is the one of the best traits a person can have. I respect passion from a person more than anything else other than their true genuine nature. I find deep connection with people who live their lives by passion and don't even know it.


Passion for a musical instrument produces a quality musician that everyone wants to hear play. One that can change your mood, change your emotions, and influence you positively by just passionately doing what they love. Even if I can never understand why people would make their lives around playing music, I can respect the fact that they enjoy it enough to make it their entire lives, and they are passionate enough to try to make it work.

Caring for animals in a way that only can be described as passion. I can relate to this kind of passion everytime I pet a dog or cat, and they instantly connect with me. I've had people tell me in the past that my connection with their dog who usually doesn't befriend people was bizarre. Cats usually like me too. We'll say I relate with the inner instincts in those animals, and try to sense what they are feeling. My passion for animals isn't a tenth of the care and love I've seen people display - the kind of people who work for zoo's or for vet hospitals, etc.

It doesn't matter what the career is, you can pick the passionate people apart from the ones who are just there taking up space. You can see the drive in their eyes, you can almost sense the focus in the air when being near these people. It's the kind of people who are successful and you can never picture them as anything but successful. These kinds of people are fueled by passion. These are the kinds of people I want constantly in my life, to show me how to utilize this passion.

Passion to me is best explained by combining dedication with a sense of curiosity, and an overwhelming flame of energy and emotion. For me, that passion comes from your inner soul, your inner energy, the kind that gets stored up inside waiting to be released and focused onto a single desire, a single outlet.

What kind of person are you without passion? What kind of life are you living, where you don't constantly seek to enjoy a life fueled by passion?

I find myself getting passionate about various things and it makes me feel so alive. It's the reason I own a motorcycle, it's the reason I downshift and accelerate, it's the feeling I get when I get to the top of the 30 foot wall in rock climbing, it's the feeling I get when starting on the top of the mountain, or the feeling I felt when jumping out of an airplane. It's the spark of energy that keeps me going when I should quit. It's the spark of fire that keeps me wanting to take on more and more challenges to the point of being overburdened and overrun with tasks and priorities. Every affectionate kiss to her lips, every passionate stare in her eyes. It's the reason I thrive. It's the reason I breathe.

Sometimes I wish I could store passion up to use it later, or to force myself to work out more or do things I want to do in life. I don't think passion would mean as much if it wasn't such a spontaneous feeling of overwhelming joy. If there's ever a day I lose my passion, or my sense of humor for good, that's the day that I will be gone forever. Till then, I'll be happy to positively influence each and every one of you with my passion when you're feeling low on your own.