PASSION

Passion comes from someone who feels strong emotions towards something that interests oneself. When I am asked what I am most passionate about, tons of random thoughts will scatter in my brain to search for the answer. Passion comes from different angles of emotions. I am passionate about anything that pulls me in to be more of myself. Passion is a distinct characteristic that not every person has the opportunity to experience. When one is said to have passion, that means that this person is driven and full of enthusiasm. Passion can be expressed in many different situations.

Passion is described as a powerful emotion, such as love, hate, joy or anger. Anyone can be joyful, but when someone is passionately joyful, it takes the meaning of joyful, to a whole new level. A person can "fly into a passion," meaning they are experiencing intense rage and emotion. The television show "Passions" revolves around all of these emotions, therefore incorporating its title into every episode it airs. Passion elaborates much more on the powerful emotion of love.

A person is described as "passionate" is generally very motivated, enthusiastic, and full of life. Companies involved with advertising are incessantly looking to recruit passionate people, because their enthusiasm affects a potential customer's decision positively in the company's favor.  FM Foster summarised this thought quite well when he said, "One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested."

Passion can also be the object of one's enthusiasm. When a particular item or activity is one's "passion", it becomes not just something they like to do, but rather a part of them as a person. If a boy is passionate about hockey, it means that he lives, breathes, and sleeps hockey. It means that he spends a great deal of time not only playing hockey, but also thinking about hockey.  A person's greatest "passion" is that person's obsession; it is, at least in their eyes, their purpose in life.

A life without passion would be a life without purpose. The absence of passion means the absence of love, joy and excitement; it also means the absence of hatred, spite and anger. Life without passion would be meaningless, empty and boring. Henri Fredric Amiel perhaps said it best in the following statement: "A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks."  Life is full of passion and without it, there would be no quality of life.