The most valuable things in life don't have a price, while some cool
things often have a "reasonable price." Sometimes I/we
take our own life for granted. I have no idea where passion comes
from or goes, just like I don't know where my own life may go.
I like to think I make my own life and have some say in my destiny,
but that may not be the case. Maybe one's own life is something
entrusted to us? (whatever the us is)
I was very passionate about photography for many years, and in the
early years it didn't seem that I could justify spending money on a
passion, so I did not follow my passion, whole heartedly, until later
in life. And the OM system was just the right ticket for me.
I don't know how to describe the feeling it had in my hands.
Then digital came along and changed things around.
So I guess passion is something that needs nourishment so it
does not starve. Or maybe passion nourishes us.
My brother has entered hospice care and is dying of cancer.
I wonder the why's a lot. It makes me ask what is important.
So I think passion is important, but I can't say why or how.
I wonder if we even choose our passions. Or whether we
only allow them move through us or cut them off.
WayneS
At 01:22 PM 6/13/2009, you wrote:
>OMLS wrote:
>
>> Two pains, one seeing it not be used the other from seeing it go.
>> The two pains can conflict, and rather than see it gather dust
>> the passion takes over and he let it go - I imagine.
>>
>
>
>One of the things I've tried to understand through the years is "lost
>passion". How can a person eat and breathe something--they just have to have
>it to make their life complete and then after a while it has gathered dust
>or worse yet an apathy develops towards it. It can be a car, a camera,
>computer, but most often relationships with others. "Passion" and "madly in
>love" are not too far separated.
>
>I've always been a believer in "sweat investment". This is based on the
>principle of "You appreciate more, that which you invested hard work in to
>get." But I've been corrected on that. I appreciate more that which has
>been entrusted in me for a purpose. For example:
>
>I did not "buy" my children. My personal religious ethos is that children
>have been entrusted to me and my wife and we have the expressed and implied
>responsibility to raise them to a certain standard and prepare them for
>life. I'm sitting here at a conference center right now, typing on my work
>laptop as I'm on call this morning and had a support call to take care of.
>But why I'm here is because my younger daughter was getting a top award for
>a major achievement. Last year, my older daughter accomplished the same
>task. It brings tears to the eyes when you see your children get recognized
>for this. But it brings even more pride and appreciation when you see the
>other kids gather around yours because yours have reached out in love to the
>other kids and they feel welcome and loved.
>
>But I digress.
>
>The parallel here is that I've bought MUCH equipment through the years. Some
>stuff I appreciate more than others, and I've sold MUCH equipment through
>the years too. But what is it I appreciate most and have the greatest
>passion to use? It's the stuff which has been given and loaned to me. This
>is an investment in my art, passion and indirectly to the photography of
>certain organizations or events. (T45 used this morning for just this
>purpose). I have a responsibility with this equipment, just as I have a
>responsibility with my own children, to use it, develop it, invest it in
>others.
>
>AG
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