Passion Play

i love the phantom of the opera and the title of this blog is an excerpt from a line in the movie. but this blog will not be about the phantom of the opera, sadly. we can save that for a rainy day.

no, this blog is about passion. not the lustful kind of passion. not passion fruit. not the Passion (of the Christ). just passion.

people will do everything in their power to do whatever in the world it is that they are passionate about. yes, this sounds cliche and non mind-blowing, but i realized this about myself. case in point: lady gaga (future blog topic? you betcha) is coming to town and i must've searched for information on ticket sales every day until an exact sale date was announced. once i heard a date and pre-sale date, i asked around to get a pre-sale code and got it. unfortunately, i didn't get pre-sale tix but i skipped work a little bit just to try to get some tix at the exact time and date that they went on sale to the general public. everything in my power to get tix.

people will make time for what or who they feel is important to them. i think back to when new friends episodes were premiering on thursdays. at that time, the Godsend gift of DVR was not available. however, it probably would not have mattered. it didn't matter if i was in the middle of homework, writing a paper, or practicing piano. once it started, i could be found glued to my couch for that next half hour. all other things did not matter. no communication with other people (except perhaps during commercials if you were lucky) was allowed. to say i was passionate about the tv show is an understatement.

an alcoholic will find a way to have a drink. a drug addict will do anything to get his/her hands on the next fix. an Olympic swimmer will eat insane amounts of food and swim all day. a marathon runner will wake up extremely early to train and squeeze in a morning run. why? simply because it is their passion. be it good or bad, it does not matter. to them, it's always good.

what are you passionate about? family? friends? work? significant other? my only advice: keep it all in a happy balance.

thanks for reading.

-jdv