Passion and impulses

Passionate people can be expressive or subtle. The expressive ones tend to be more outward with their feelings and their various manifestations. Passion is certainly important in a person's life. I believe that no one can live a fulfilling life without passion. Sure it's easy to simply cruise along, going where life takes you. But without passion, the will to live a more fulfilling life, the search for happiness and the desire to become a better person in all possible personal definitions, become less relevant and subsequently, less important.

Yet for expressive passionate people, there's always a danger of succumbing to their impulses. And when this happens, how does one actually differentiate between real passion and real impulses. An impulse is necessary to drive the action expressing passion. But when one becomes blinded by the desire for action, impulses may override passion. And when the passion ceases, the action becomes irrelevant, or wrong.

They say that passion fades, but real love lasts forever. Yes but the concept of real love is a huge and deep one. Real love takes work. It's not a given and definitely not a certain 'next step' from passion. Real love is giving and taking, understanding and patience, getting angry and forgiving all in a matter of one breath, and much much more. When one's willing to do that, one can preach about having true love for someone else other than oneself.

In this day, we are quick to decide. We let our passion manifests itself via our impulses and our constant need for action. But can we stand by our decision? Only time can tell.