What Fires the Heat of Passion

 Passion, that raging emotion that causes us to rush headlong into the wind with utter abandon, a fire that eclipses all reason; what ignites this kind of exhilaration? Passion has a calling card that can't be ignored. It is the lightening flashing from our eyes, a reflection of the call of the wild in us. What drives us to the pursuit of riding the heat of passion?

Regardless of how life plays out, everyone understands the lure of caring about someone or something more than anything else in life. We search for it in the eyes of the one we love, in the act of making love and in all the unfulfilled dreams we harbor silently. To be overwhelmed with desire, to feel the scorch of white-hot emotion is worth sacrificing all the safeguards we have carefully built into our lives.

What is this emotion anyway? It is the deepest reflection of caring, of love. We feel it for the people we love, for a dream we are destined to realize, for a cause that has gripped our hearts; for anything that has touched us at the deepest emotional level. Impossible dreams become reality when passion flares to life. Nothing is impossible if we care deeply enough. Fueled by passion, we dream with clarity and follow our hearts, no matter how far the distance and no matter how hopeless success may appear; failure is not an option. It is why we win against unbeatable odds; our heart is in it.

Caught in this emotion we become a stranger to the people who thought they knew us. Our priorities, our plans, goals and everything that defined us shifts. Our vision is crystal clear, focused like a laser on that which we desire above all else. We have become a raging storm filled with wonder, alive more than ever before.

Passion brings deep and lasting change, in us or in the cause that has become so dear to us. There is deep commitment in passion; we have a cause or a yearning that we believe in so much we are willing to sacrifice whatever is required to satisfy our pursuit. We search for passion in our life because it completes us; is allows to trench the depths and the scale the heights of human emotion as we follow our dream. The greatest achievements of mankind were realized through passion. It is powerful and leaves us filled with wonder.

But what ignited this in us? In the midst of all that fire is thirst. We are thirsting for a feeling, a change, a result that matters so much we are prepared to cast all else to the wind to attain what matters so much to us. Thirst kindles and ignites the flame of passion.