Reading harold_maude's journal

The really amazing thing about people who are passionate about anything is that it's a part of of their lifestyle.
It's as natural as breathing.
And it's awesome to watch. It's very infectious watching someone who is passionate about something. Makes you want to do something yourself.

Thoes who take up causes on the other hand, seem to be only really functional when they are part of a group,
outside of what ever cause it is, they just seem to wander aimlessly.

They kind of remind me of the mom's you see who have their kids in all kinds of programs and when their not busy running all over the place they belong to every kind of what ever they can.
I wonder if they ever sleep.

Passion feeds the soul. Causes make people overly zealous, and obnoxious.
They are the salesmen that you hide from when they come to your door.
They are the people who get offended when you try to lighten things up a bit.

Passionate people are often a bit eccentric because they view the world through the filter of their passion. That, I do believe makes them far more interesting to hang out with.

There have been times of both in my life. And I have to say without hessitation that when I was involved with a cause, no matter how good the cause, I was exausted all the time.
In the times when I have been lost in my passions I have tons of energy, and can loose all track of time.
I may not get a lot of sleep, but I'm a whole lot happier, and I tend to get things done, and somthing else I've noticed,
people like being around me more when I'm lost in my passions than when I've been caught up in a cause.

Passions stay almost always your whole life, causes simply fade away and become part of your past.
I've met a few people who's passions have become their causes, and they are really different.
In a good way.

On thinking about it all, I think I'd rather live in the mist of my passions any day of the week than in the lastest, most desperate cause that anyone could ever come up with.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.