“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”—Albert Einstein
We cannot say we are passionate about something unless we devote our whole attention to it for at least a part of the day.
We cannot call ourselves Spiritual if we remain self-centered and don’t devote at least some part of our day to reflection and contemplation.
We cannot say that we are committed to our Physical well-being if we do not consciously consider what we eat and drink. We are not committed to our Physical well-being if we go about diet and exercise haphazardly without goals or plans.
We cannot call ourselves Intellectual when our diet of information relies on social media and secondary sources (or worse, what I call “turdshitty” sources). We must be committed to reading daily and studying new information. We don’t have a passion for learning if our worldview is not growing to fill the ever-expanding universe.
We cannot be overly or ineffectively Emotional and call it “passion”.
We cannot say we are Socially well-centered when we deny the souls of others the space to speak. We are not socially well-centered when we deny a relationship focused time and space to blossom.
Passion, however, that denies the world of one’s whole self is unfortunate. There is a time to “drive safely” and there is a time to passionately “kiss a pretty girl”. To not give one or the other its rightful focus is to leave a void in the Universe.
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might” (Ecclesiastes 9:10, NIV).
Be your best today; be better tomorrow.
Carpe momento!