Phineas Kibbey's Portfolio » series http://phineaskibbey.com A portfolio of work ranging from Web Development to Photography Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:44:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Searching for Passion http://phineaskibbey.com/writing/searching-for-passion/ http://phineaskibbey.com/writing/searching-for-passion/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:34:49 +0000 phineas kibbey http://phineaskibbey.com/blog/?p=4 Breaking down the ego seemed like a good idea at the time. One of the side effects that I was left with, was a feeling that nothing really mattered, which wasn’t so bad, because it didn’t matter that nothing mattered.

So when thinking about what I would to have as the things that are important to me in life, I found myself asking the question:

What am I passionate about?

I drew a blank, and so continued to ask myself questions to aid my quest… What does it mean to be passionate? I can sense it, but found it more difficult to put into words.

After a few conversations about what creates passion, I started to see a pattern. All of the people I spoke to seemed to have experienced a series of increasing rewards relating to their obsessions. What caused them to start in the first place still escapes me… I guess that it could be a random chance, if such a thing exists in this world of preordained events.

So, can one become passionate simply by seeking reward for a particular action?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passion_(emotion)

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