One thing I do know is that if you don't have something to live for, then you don't have a direction to head for. And, that is tough. Now, it is one thing to live -- to go through the flow, make a few choices, and see where you end up -- , it is another to live passionately -- to act thoughtfully, to love what you do and to do what you love.
Living can be taken in either of these two ways, but they don't end up in the same place. One is passive, it is reactive, and it fails to strive and succeed. The other has so much potential. I want to live passionately and put myself fully into everything I do, and I don't see why that couldn't be possible. If you make the decisions that lead to you living out what you want to be, then why can't you love everything that you do. The good comes with the bad, obviously, but love fixing the problems because each error is potential for change. It lends itself towards new opportunities, and why not make it fun? Passion is a strong emotion, and it is emotions that make us humans. They give us drive, they move us onward and attach us to that which we find important. Embracing passions gives us the chance to live more fully and to make our lives more than simple computations of input-outputs and a string of decisions. They are embodiments of our interests and our purposes as we promote our passionate intensity.
The purpose here is not in a romantic sense, but instead of all of our actions that ever so frequently pass as mundane occurrences. Those things happen for a reason, and either come to grips with the reason or find a way to change it. Don't live with that which you cannot bear, or at least don't accept it as a given if it can at all budge.
I want to "burn out bright"as Switchfoot puts it, and why not make a difference while I'm at it?
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