Passive or Passion
The way I see it, there are really only two ways to live life. You can choose to live passively, or you can choose to live with passion. Which sounds better to you? Passively living life, or passionately living life.
The word passive basically means: to exist and conduct oneself without any active concerted effort. Simply put, you just go with the flow and do not resist the status quo.
On the other hand, the word passion means: to have strong or powerful emotion.
Now that you know what these two words mean, which sounds better to you? Which word would you prefer to define your life by? Would you like to reach the end of your life and have someone say that you were a person who lived their entire life as a passive individual? Or would you rather reach the end of your life, and have someone say that you had lived your life with great passion? See the difference?
Every day we wake up, we get to decide how we are going to live the life that we have been granted. Will you choose to live it passively or with passion?
When we choose to live passively, we choose to settle, surrender, and stop striving for better. We choose to settle and be average, never attempting things that might stretch and grow us. We surrender our hopes, goals, and dreams, by never trying to go after them. We choose to stop striving for better, when we decide that we will not give extra effort, become disciplined, and when we do what everyone else is doing just because everyone else does it. Passively living life leads to mediocrity and settling for average.
When we choose to live passionately, we choose to grow, never quit, and make the most of every opportunity. We choose to grow and change, when we realize that is the only way to get to the next level. We choose to never quit, when we decide it is no longer an option. No matter how hard the journey is, or how many setbacks we may face, we decide to keep going. We choose to live passionately when we decide to make the most of every opportunity that we get. Passionate living is choosing to take the life you have been given, one day at a time, and purposefully living it out to maximize its potential. Passionately living life leads to excitement for what each day and opportunity might bring!
So what is it going to be for you?
Will you choose to live the rest of your life, passively? Settling, surrendering, and never striving for more?
Or will you choose to see what will happen when you decide to live with passion? Making the most of every opportunity and every day that you are given?