Part of (what I hope to be) a weekly audio file about my life, thoughts, and ideas.
Today I was thinking about passion, and the duality of my nature. I was reflecting on and relating to the idea of a 'work-a-holic' getting a glimpse of what it must be like to be one.
On one side, we have my very predictiable life and behaviour. This is something that gives me great power, and happiness in my life. I'm not a big fan of large changes, and often feel overwhelmed by them. I eat basically the same foods, do the same work, and life the same life each day. And I LOVE IT that way. I thrive on ordered lists, to do's, semi-organization giving me a sense of normality.
My passionite side though can be quite different. I can go through these inspirational periods where one thing is the focus on my mind for long periods of time. Two examples that come to my mind are a) the upcoming birth of my new child and b) updates and new writings for my website. Sometimes I can be very intensed and focused and driven from dawn to dusk (and even in my sleep) on one thing, to the determint and exclusion of all else.
So like most things I have discovered, passion can be both a blessing and a curse. For a time it gets our juices pumping, our endorphin levels rising, gives us energy and makes us feel excited. But in the meantime we are thrown from our routine, fall out of schedule, perhaps miss other important activites in our life.
Have you ever experienced this yourself? What are the sort of things you are passionite about? Does inspirational passion take a hold of you and leave you in a shambles afterwards?
It can be a very delicate balance to maintain, but passion can come and go like a wave, and hopefully for most of us does not hold on too long, less we 'burn-out'. But when the wave comes we ride it and hold on as best we can, and then bring ourselves back to normality in the end.
http://ourmedia.org/node/368661
The song at the end is by Vicky Andres and is used via the creative commons license. More info can be found at http://www.archive.org/details/VickyAndres-WakeMeUp
Today I was thinking about passion, and the duality of my nature. I was reflecting on and relating to the idea of a 'work-a-holic' getting a glimpse of what it must be like to be one.
On one side, we have my very predictiable life and behaviour. This is something that gives me great power, and happiness in my life. I'm not a big fan of large changes, and often feel overwhelmed by them. I eat basically the same foods, do the same work, and life the same life each day. And I LOVE IT that way. I thrive on ordered lists, to do's, semi-organization giving me a sense of normality.
My passionite side though can be quite different. I can go through these inspirational periods where one thing is the focus on my mind for long periods of time. Two examples that come to my mind are a) the upcoming birth of my new child and b) updates and new writings for my website. Sometimes I can be very intensed and focused and driven from dawn to dusk (and even in my sleep) on one thing, to the determint and exclusion of all else.
So like most things I have discovered, passion can be both a blessing and a curse. For a time it gets our juices pumping, our endorphin levels rising, gives us energy and makes us feel excited. But in the meantime we are thrown from our routine, fall out of schedule, perhaps miss other important activites in our life.
Have you ever experienced this yourself? What are the sort of things you are passionite about? Does inspirational passion take a hold of you and leave you in a shambles afterwards?
It can be a very delicate balance to maintain, but passion can come and go like a wave, and hopefully for most of us does not hold on too long, less we 'burn-out'. But when the wave comes we ride it and hold on as best we can, and then bring ourselves back to normality in the end.
http://ourmedia.org/node/368661
The song at the end is by Vicky Andres and is used via the creative commons license. More info can be found at http://www.archive.org/details/VickyAndres-WakeMeUp
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