May 30 2008
“Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can be used to produce fire. Our present sufferings, no matter how dark, have certainly not continued for billions of years-nor will they linger forever. The sun will definitely rise. In fact, its ascent has already begun.”
Daisaku Ikeda
May 26 2008
You spend all your childhood dreaming about how your going to save the world by becoming a fireman or a doctor. But then you start growing up and enter that time in your life where you’re neither a child nor an adult. You’re still have brains the size of a peanut and the thinking power of an origami frog, yet you’re starting to develop ideas of your own and you’re starting to define what is and what isn’t right for you, a crucial part of your life.
Hold on to this part of your life. I’ve always been an enemy of holding on, but in this case I’ll make an exception. This is a phase when you acquire passion. Uninfluenced, pressure-free, unscathed-by-the-cruel-unrelenting-world passion.
Then, you start growing up. You’re forced to face that fact you YOU HAVE TO WORK. That or starve to death. And if somehow you manage to get a job (which is not that hard in a developed country), you start to realize that life is not what you thought it was and that YOU WANT OUT. Well guess what buddy boy, that’s not gonna happen. I’m not writing these passionate words just so you quit.
PASSION. Mix passion+humanism+work and you have the perfect equation to achieve a rich, fulfilled, and regret-free life. You will be reaching the golden pot at the en of the rainbow. So ask yourself, “What is my passion?”, and move with your chin up high in the direction in which you can exercise this passion of yours.
