A couple of weeks ago I started a discussion regarding passion and what it symbolises to the human being and the society we live in. I concluded that passion is what drives the spirit and the body in creating. If you didn’t know already, the main characteristic that separates us from the rest of the primates is our ability to invent, to create, our ability to use tools for our own good.
According to many, passion is not a necessary attribute to have on the road to success. Many argue that work ethics and strong virtues are more important than being passionate about everything you do. In my own opinion these characteristics come second after what I consider to be the strongest point that one can have. Work ethics comes with practice, strong virtues are taught by society, family and the environment, while passion is something that has to be understood, embraced and used properly in order for this to be a decisive and coherent property of that which wishes to have success.
Animals can not be passionate, robots and computers also lack this ability, to attach emotional feeling to a material thing in order to cover it with an aura of ‘personification’, a link between reality and spirituality that leads to improving and creating extraordinary things.
The great Oscar Wilde once said, ‘Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.’ The greatest learning that one can have from here is that passion is strongly tied with your sense of self, with the main attributes that make a person human and that give it the defying characteristics of what it will become.
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