Passion

I'm a funny one to talk about passion because I've never had much of it. Oh sure, when I was at work, I attacked things with a certain amount of rawness.I missed the point, that is, why bother. Now I'm getting an inkling of an idea, without passion, there can be no greatness.You've got to create your own passion, the fire comes from inside, ie. your soul has it. I've always been a satisfied person, that is, satisfied with myself. Sort of a pretend happiness, well I've been fooling myself. I missed the game, which is called living.I've been doing a poor job of it for 52 years. When the teacher is ready, the student will appear, or some such nonsense.Life has been ready for all my life, and I haven't taken the bit in my teeth.Now, I'm starting to nibble, just a bit.I'm starting to realize what the game is really about. It's really simple when you get it. I'm here to live passionately, to enjoy what I'm doing so intensely that I help people around me in the process of being alive. I've always written about it, but now I'm living the part.Everyone is here for a specific reason, there are no accidents.Only you can figure that out, oh, there are several clues. Live and let live, without judging. Be the student who never stops learning. Everyone has something to teach the world.When you find it, you've just got to let go and do it.Make the world a better place by becoming what you alone can be. Lately, I've been asking the Universe for guidance a lot, so I may seem like a rudderless ship.The point here is that you can only get so far with your mind alone.When you combine mind and heart, you can go faster down your path.I'm talking about your feelings, the passion of life.The Universe has a passion for life. It pulsates with it, get some.Life attracts life and it is in the doing, not the writing about it. So far, all I've done is write about it, smug in the supposed fact that only I knew all about life, even though I didn't have a clue.You know the type, mad at the world for not waking up and living the way life ought to be lived.I was always good at telling people how they ought to live their life, even though I was too scared to actually tell them, you know, fear of rejection. I missed the whole point, as usual, which is, life is to be lived, not talked about. A judge may be fouled up in his or her own life, and that somehow qualifies them to make judgements about the way you run your life, the ultimate irony.Why assume the fantasy that you know what is going on with someone else?Their karmic debt may be much further back than just this one lifetime.Possibly, it's the judge that also has some work to do in this area of his or her life, the wider your perception, the bigger your responsibility.If you think you can actually make a difference in this life, then go ahead and move toward what you can do without worrying so much about what others are doing or how badly they are fouling it up.By cleaning up your own mess, you do help the world on a small level.