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the CAUSE you live for... not that other passion.

okay, got your attention. what events took place to lay the groundwork for your primary interest in life? you have found your cause, you have acquired your knowledge base, you have built and expanded your comfort zone: but WHY did you choose THIS particular passion, and WHEN did you realize it?

2007-07-13 16:22:40 · 11 answers · asked by patzky99 6 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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I have always loved music. But yes, I do remember when passion in that regard, came into my life. When I was15 or so, we lived on a river, and I had a boat. Out in the river there were some very small islands, with even smaller beaches. One night, I had the "girl of my dreams" out there with some food and a radio, and we were making out on the beach with the radio on. A song came on by a group I had heard about, but never actually heard before. I was utterly stunned, had never hear anything like that before. I said to my companion, "Excuse me a second" (probably a relief to her). I listened to that song with my tongue hanging out, and have been listening to that band for coming up on forty years! My companion that night is----long gone.

So that band was, and has remained, my musical passion. Why? Just musical sympatico, mojo, whatever you want to call it. They calm this "savage beast".

2007-07-17 14:26:22 · answer #1 · answered by mrm 4 · 2 0

This is a tough one. I don't think I have a "cause" that I live for, meaning I do what I do because it's fulfilling. I've probably been a painter (primarily) for most of my life, & I can remember that I, & my siblings sat at the kitchen table when we were incredibly young, every single evening--drawing pictures. I'm sure it must have been a passion, because I did it for years for my income, yet other things overlapped. There's something in a book--somewhere--where an artist said, in essence, that once a man has a single passion, there's no room for other passions. I don't believe that at all. There are many passions in life; they may be different, just as there are different kinds of love, but one isn't more valuable than another. There's always room for more.

2007-07-13 18:57:53 · answer #2 · answered by Psychic Cat 6 · 4 0

Okay, you can all "take me on" but that's okay. The night before I was born. There is no passion as pure, as passion unintellectualized. Give that a think. There were emotions, & there was visual undefined. I never spoke a word of the "experience." Ever. Not that words could have expressed it. In a phone conversation with my older sister, (twenty years estranged), in the context of her memories she simply mentioned that night, describing all the non-intellectual things; the image formed, my deep connection with my father & HIS feelings that night. The deep black & white of the Wisconsin Winter, my father's frustration & dispair with a car that was stuck in the snow, & my mother in the hospital window. From her description, I recognized the passionate feeling of empathy unnamed; this pattern has been with me all my life. Please to explain? As a psychologist, this is totally illogical to me, but it's so. Perhaps it NEEDS no explanation. Even when my sister related it to me, I said nothing. Supernatural? Predestiny? What? What does an unborn baby sense? I have had many professions, but my passion is psychology. Caring, empathy--surely it must have been the very core of me, or I am a very old soul, or any attempted explanation will be fine.

2007-07-13 18:20:05 · answer #3 · answered by Valac Gypsy 6 · 4 0

I think I've always had it. It didn't just happen. It was always there. As you gain more confidence and freedom and discover new interests and purposes your passion can only increase.

Passion is really a thirst for knowledge and perhaps experience too. I think life should be lived with passion don't you? It makes everything exciting and worthwhile no matter how trivial or mundane the quest.

2007-07-13 16:29:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

I have a passion for answering questions that aren't asked, no sorry that is Robert's job. I found my passion the first time I encountered this board. Unfortunately, to Robert's point, it turned to rage at the ignorance and narrow mindedness of so many people [RP]. Great question, however I must say that I rediscover my passion everyday at random times. Open your heart and mind or you could find yourself in an emotionless box.

2007-07-13 18:01:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Since passion is an emotional sense it is an automatic process that develops over time and can't be pinned down to a particular starting time and is impossible to know what the catalyst was that formed the passion into a positive or negative emotion.Passion can be both good (strong enthusiasm for something)and bad(outburst of anger) depending on what you desire.

2007-07-13 17:36:16 · answer #6 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 2 1

I am a hopeful romantic. That is my passion in life in everything I seek to do whether it is my family, my job, my current sweetheart, my love for photography and the arts, my love for writing and listening to hearts and stories of laughter and romance. I don't think I have ever not been. Hopeful. Me. Passionate. I especially like water. Clean River water, clear ocean water, crystal lake water, fresh pool water, it nourishes my body and makes me feel wonderfully romantic. Especially then climbing into a clean bed with fresh linens and a man I love. Yummy.

2007-07-13 16:45:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Hi,
There is a part of me, a core part of me that has always remained constant as life has gone on.
I look back and ‘feel’ as if I always knew where I was going, what I was going to be. It’s like the essence of me was already established and was just waiting for the right time to transpire.
I look back and sometimes think I was 'old' even when I was 'young'. What life has done is given me the experience to develop my passion/s.
Polly

2007-07-14 02:41:50 · answer #8 · answered by pollyanna 6 · 3 0

Army offered to pay for education while teaching me other applicable anti-humane trades... along with them came the pain "passion" of knowing not everyone can do it. Which stoked the interest in becoming much better at it as I went. Not a bad gig. And there's no better time to be in the military than at a time of all out war like right now. Please, oh please do not end this war. It's turning out awesome warriors.

2007-07-17 19:20:31 · answer #9 · answered by Davis Wylde 3 · 2 0

all and sundry says love isn't elementary, yet i think of it is approximately very own selection. it is trouble-free, truthfully. 2 people, being unswerving to a minimum of one yet another perpetually. Loving and cherishing and embracing each and each flaw in view that's yet another excuse which you like them. Temtation is all approximately what you're making it. very own alternatives. I in basic terms say " i admire you" when I recommend it, if i dont, i won't be in a position to be forced into asserting it basically because of the fact the different did.

2016-09-29 23:14:16 · answer #10 · answered by dorthy 4 · 0 0

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