At the same workshop, I became taken with the ideas around Passion, and how it is manifested in people and received by others.

In our unique British way, Passion and the expression of it, is a tad embarrassing.  All that emotion displayed for all to witness.  There is something unseemly about it.  Often when someone has spoken passionately about something, it is followed by the need to shuffle feet, look sheepish and mutter an apology.

Every family conditions its young into what is acceptable and what is not acceptable.  We learn that one individual’s desires can be an imposition on another.  In the process, we may also learn that Passion is something to be curbed, lest we disgrace our community. How much passion for life was expressed in your family?

Curbing our Passion is a recipe for mediocrity.

Hopefully the embarrassment is just over the strength of our feelings, and not the message.  There is a need for ecology and aligned congruence.  Since it is through our Passion that we know who we are and what we’re here for. When we touch our Passion, we generate vital energy.  We can inspire others.  We can collaborate to create something even larger.

Society needs constraints and limitations.  the question is – Can we afford to have Passion as one of them?

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