Chapter Five: Love and Passion

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

If you invest love and passion into any task or any person, you are repaid a hundred times over with the same. I have found this to be true in nearly every facet of every day life. The minute you retract your emotional investment everything gets skewed and cold and grey.

Love and passion, being intangible, are very hard to measure. In fact, they can’t really be measured with any accuracy at all, except perhaps by assessing the quality of a person’s soul – not by judgement, but by understanding. By trying to very hard to see whatever light it is that glows at the core of whoever they are and whatever they do.

I’m fortunate enough to be surrounded by people who, while not always perfectly behaved, have highly visible souls. They are on display. And over time it has occurred to me that these must be the most successful people in the world.

This probably isn’t a unique experience or idea, and I’m not, as I have done in previous posts, going to go on and on about this at length, with all my various insights and opinions howling around the screen.

However, what I will say is this:

Love and passion make a mockery of money, they render the greatest possessions worthless and they raise humans, if not necessarily to the height of the heavens, at least partially above the strange and often bleak parade of every day life.

Until the next time …