I’m passionate.
I’m also many other things (like ‘tired’), but right now, ‘passionate’ can be used interchangeably with ‘Deb’. I believe having PASSION is a gift, a risk, a luxury and most importantly, a DUTY.
Firstly, it’s a GIFT because everyone is born and raised differently with different personae and frames of mind. We can be regimental, blasé, structured or go-with-the-flow about life and that’s perfectly fine. But it takes someone with edge to have the GUTS to have and pursue PASSION and that’s where RISK fits in.
We need to take a RISK when it comes to pursuing something we care so much about. PASSION is from the core of your being so if it ends up crashing and burning at the feet of our expectations…that’s going to hurt a bloody lot more than not taking the risk at all. Or will it?
Following your passion is a LUXURY because reality can be a wet-blanket for many people out there; money problems, family problems, health problems, lack of opportunities, lack of education… so to be free of those binding shackles already gives you grant for pursuit. You just need to give yourself permission.
And lastly it’s a DUTY. Years ago I came across a line in ‘The Dream Giver’ (yes, it’s a Christian book): ‘Your big dream is someone’s big need. If you don’t follow your big dream…someone’s need won’t be filled…’ Or something like that. And that’s when I had my epiphany.
My passion is education. My passion is life. My passion is to lift people out of mental hell-holes and provide intellectual tools for them to rebuild their livelihoods and recognize HOPE.
I’ve got a lot more to learn and a lot more to give. And as long as I feel this fire inside of me (that isn’t the impending angina) I’m spear-heading my ambitions until I’m damn-well satisfied!
