Igniting Myself on Fire: Committing to a Life of Passion
By Paul Piotrowski on Jun 8, 2007 in Motivation and Passion, live with passion, passion, self development, self help, self improvement
This morning, around 2:30am I woke up with a bad case of heart-burn. It is only now that I realize that even then my spirit was talking to me in metaphor, for my heart was being set on fire and “heart-burn” seems an appropriate choice for a wake-up call, don’t you think?
Call it destiny, call it an awakening, call it a quarter-life-crisis (I’m 30 and I plan to at least live to 120!). Call it whatever you want. I’ve been living my life for the last few years in a very difficult to describe state of being. I’m not depressed, but I’m not happy either. I’m not depressed because I have nothing to be depressed about. My life is filled with things I should be grateful for, and am grateful for. I have achieved great goals in my life, I have great health, great friends, a great wife an amazing wife (edit as per my wife’s request) and there really isn’t anything for me to complain about. Yet, underneath, I’ve felt like an unlit match of passion and it won’t go away.
I know I’m not the only one. I’ve seen it in the eyes of others. There is a passion for life, living in us, waiting to come to the surface, and it sits there, waiting and gnawing at us….waiting to be released. It is that spark of fire that terminally ill people get all of a sudden after their diagnosis from the doctor. All of a sudden, they don’t feel depressed - they feel alive! Those around them think it’s denial, but it is not. It is the end of fear, and the time they have left on this earth all of a sudden means something. They do more in their last year then they have done in the 50 years prior.
Why must we wait for that bad news before flipping that mental switch in our heads to let that passion live? This morning, I’ve made the committment to flip that switch and to stop half-living my life. I decided to screw waiting until I’m old to start living my life without fear.
I finally know, and I finally understand what Tony Robbins means when he says “LIVE WITH PASSION.”
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Great insight. I totally agree. My clients realize this same passion for living that you mention once they begin to take charge of their health. They come to realize that just because everyone around them is living a certain way does not mean they have to. Once we identify with a higher standard of living & being and take a taste of it, we kick ourselves in the rear wondering why it has taken us so long to step up to the life we should have been living all along.
Kevin Mendez, Fitness & Personal Development Coach
Truth Fitness & Personal Development Inc.
kevin | Jun 9, 2007 | Reply
It almost seems like certain planets have to align, and certain switches have to flip in our heads before we make that realization. It’s a great place to be though! It’s great that you help people reach this state of being!
Paul Piotrowski | Jun 9, 2007 | Reply
You are doing genios! Keep it up
raj | Jun 14, 2007 | Reply