What does it mean to have a real passion
for life?
Would you say you’re passionate? Are passionate people really
the happiest people? Are they the most productive, or most successful?
Better still, are you living your passions right now? If not, why
not?
Passion is a force which focuses your personal energy like a laser
focuses light into a concentrated beam. Passion un-scatters the
mishmash of details in your minute-by-minute life, casting aside
all that is unimportant in favor of only what is necessary for your
optimum performance. Seems a shame, really, not to live every day
with passion!
When your passion re-awakens - assuming that your role in the real
world isn’t currently an epic one of mythical proportions
- you will find that your soul once again becomes young and free,
dancing gingerly with a red rose clenched between its gleaming teeth.
Aah, where’s the Passion of our youth?
Each and every day of our lives is a blank canvas upon which we
get to create a) a work of art of incredible brilliance, or b) the
same old mind-numbing ‘paint by numbers’ existence which
most of us are sick and tired of waking up to. It wasn’t supposed
to be this way. That’s not the script we envisioned for our
lives. If passion is the engine that drives us, then this engine
is perhaps in need of a timely overhaul.
We could all benefit from a few ‘life-art’ lessons,
a little something to put the snap back into our step. Time to wake
up to what matters most in your life – and what matters most
is your life. Living your life, your dreams, your hopes and aspirations.
The Secret of Living to 100
One secret to keeping your vitality and passion, your youthfulness,
is to disbelieve the society around you. So advises Thomas Moore,
the author of The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life. “I think
it's awfully important to be a rebel to the society you're in, even
if it's a good place.”
What could be a better way of putting a giddy bounce into your step
than questioning what is meant by ‘acting your age’
at 40 or 60 or …90 or 100?
Leonard Poon, of the Georgia Centenarian Study, was asked what traits,
if any, do people over 100 years old have in common.” They
want to have their way,” he said. “They would not take
your word for anything - they want to find out for themselves. And
they’re very protective of themselves.”
The Fountain of Youth
The Fountain of Youth, like the heroic
journey, is but a metaphor for what is to be found in the depths.
And like the hero who has found some profound truth that he will
share with the world, this life-giving spring is anchored in the
finest qualities that set us apart as humans.
One of these prime qualities is the key to the fountain of youth.
The fountain of youth is living life, feeling life, having a passion
for life. We wear down and rust not because the parts are no longer
any good, but because we have ceased to employ them. The magic elixir,
the secret ingredient in the fountain of youth, is our passion,
our passion for life.
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