Do you remember the time when you really wanted something, the time you never gave up until you got what you wanted no matter how difficult it was? You were willing to sacrifice time, energy and even money. You believed that the risk was worth it. That was passion in action.
Passion is that intense feeling about something. The mind cannot easily shake off the object of the passion. It captivates your thoughts and a longing for the idea or goal develops stronger and stronger. Instead of resisting, you willingly become a captive of your passion so that one day you can conquer it by striving to fulfill it.
By focusing your mind and heart on a certain passion, the object of your passion establishes a residency in your inner person. Like a seed, it may have been planted small, but it grows in size through time. It becomes part of you. This affects your actions as well as your thoughts. You slowly become one with your passion.
Passion is an overwhelming inner force that can stir a person towards a direction, goal, or objective. That direction might be for personal benefit, or it might be for a higher purpose, that goal might be for a change in a community, or that objective might be something that can change the habits and actions of people around the world. One thing for sure, whether it will benefit self or others, as long as it does not cause harm, that overwhelming inner force called “Passion” must be unleashed.
A nation, like an individual, experiences turning points in life, some of them major, some of them minor, some significant, some not so significant. There are turning points that change the course completely. At a point in history, our nation was desperate for a major, significant change. We wanted a new direction, we wanted freedom!