Excerpt from a book that a beautiful young woman recommended to me, Eleven Minutes, by Paulo Coelho.
"Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
No wants their life thrown in chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know."
Me either...
1 comment:
Ben Franklin would say, "if passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
but if reins are held isn't passion stifled? in my head, nothing is worse than a song written and never heard. guarded passions too can crack like the shell of a brittle egg, and more often then not, the cracking of the carefully tended passion brings the same heartache, worsened by the blow of sprouting feathers never tested by the wind.
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