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Passionately Yours


For sometime now I have been wondering what marks excellence from mediocrity. Some people can make magic out of nothing. Can it be perseverance? The will to accomplish? To prove a point? Or is it passion. One of the most underrated and overused word there ever was!

I am sure all of us heard and heard some more about the requisites to excel- in a job, in a relationship, in raising your child, while pursuing a hobby, while reading the newspaper and even while polishing your shoes. And passion tops the list. So i looked up the meaning of the word and it  said any powerful or compelling feeling or emotion. 

Of many things that we do, some we do out of compulsion and some others out of interest. We clearly enjoy the latter and wouldn't mind going all out. So we work hard, are strong willed and consequently hit a level of satisfaction. Now when this interest is taken a few levels higher it becomes passion. And what was decent becomes prodigious. So the “big P” is at the root of it all. 

After all this research and logical analysis (man! I wished I was this committed while doing the dissertation for my master’s) I realised where I’ve been losing out. But if passion was that easy to have why is it that very few make it large in life? It has to be because they are willing to take risks and are ok if things don't go as planned all the time. As we grow older we are too bothered about doing the right thing, not getting hurt, not making a fool of ourselves and basically putting up a good show -“for others to watch”.

But while acting out our parts do we forget about what we want to do? Where do we want to head in life? What is it that makes us happy? Someone once told me unless you have answers to these questions our lives can never be fulfilling. True that. 


"There is no passion to be found playing small- i settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."- Nelson Mandela




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