I don't think of your passions as boring. Someone has to write, someone has to have family to keep life going,and with out people developing community and community minded people, people like me would be the bored ones.
I don't think most passion are about being a fan boy, I think they are the things that make a persons life, and love of life tick.
I think that a lot of people are passionate about being outraged these days. They don't care what they are outraged over - just addicted to the drama and peaks of it.
I was a drama fan, still am to an extent. I love the he said she said angry rant at each other, some of them are very passionate, no doubt about it. I also feel very sorry for those in the passionate throes of outrage and rants, they are missing out on so much of life's really good things to be passionate about
I don't mind a bit of drama, but I find that people get caught up in the cycle of it, like an addiction, because it gets them attention. In some way, it is like the girl at school who thinks the only way to get guys to like her is to sleep with them.
It always worked for me. Liking the girls I slept with.
Both of them :)
:D
Thats some of it I am sure, also some people just like to be mean and push peoples buttons and that is easy to do via out of context type, or out of context video clips.
Yeah. People take the most uncharitable view of something ni order to create drama and the sad thing is - it does.
I agree, it's not about being a fan, it's more a deeper layer of life which I think is amazing to have and one of the big benefits of being human. I would be lost without my passion...I use it to help me work harder and more effectively at things, to find greater enjoyment in actions, events and general life and to apply to those things I call hobbies.
Yes, passions to keep you alive and enjoying life. Not passion that might get you dead and not enjoying anymore.
Passions that make a person dead aren't so good.
I know. But there's a thing like too much passion and some people like to burn the candle on both sides.
Ah yes, candle-burning at both ends. I'm a pretty strategic and measured sort of person so both-end-burning never really seems like a smart thing to do...It rarely ends well.
It doesn't. It's like building a glass castle over sand.
There is an conservation from a genius! Passions that make you dead tend to slow your ability to find more :)
Yes, from what I know of it, being dead inhibits many aspects of life.
Death can be such a spoil sport that way.
Death only has itself in mind, it isn't very friendly.
Fan passion can be a real thing, it can carry and make a persons life. I have known a lot of DeadHeads in my time, they were all very passionate about the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia, they live and breathed their life through the music and the concerts. Many of them became friends, lovers, and families were born.
I was fortunate enough to attend a few of the Bands Concerts, they were a lot of fun, I myself never became fan to the extent that others did, but it was kind of cool to see people that knew each other only through the concert circuit, to see families with kids of all ages enjoying life.
There is fan passions, but I have never been a passionate fan.
I agree with you and, like you, haven't found someone interesting or engaging enough to say I'm passionate about them, other than my wife of course...Thirty three years and still passionate...I'm proud of that fact.
I am glad that there are so many passions out there, life would be pretty dang boring if we all had the same likes, dislikes and most of all life would be almost unbearable if we all had the same level of passion for the same thing. I am glad for the passionate fan boy, at least they bring things I may not see into the light of day. It is just unlikely I will be one, although I am close to being one I do like W.M. Gears sci-fi works and books.
One never knows, something might come along and draw you in.
The Dead Heads always amazed me. I went to a few concerts with a couple of them. I never caught that particular passion except like you, appreciating it in others. The birthday party in Eugene Oregon every year was something special.
A friend I met introduced me to their outdoor concerts, which were more like a giant family reunion than any thing else. They were fun things to go to, I think I made it to 3 in that year.
I think I went to Eugene 3 years in a row. That was such a fun show. Like you said it was a giant family reunion.
I really liked the Dead for one reason. They encouraged recorders and later video recorders at their concerts. I think you can find a couple of videos of every concert the Dead ever did.
They knew that the bootlegs actually promoted buying albums rather than destroying it.