"There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living" Nelson Mandela. We live on a little blue planet that floats in infinite space, yet daily, we dwell on the impossibilities that surround us. There is no God, we say, world peace is unattainable, they tell us, it's too hard, we tell ourselves. Only with passion can we expand. Passion, passio (Latin) "to suffer" is what it means to love to the extremity that causes pain, a constant anxiety to appease, which only through action can be alleviated. Whether it is a mother protecting her child, a professor molding young minds, or a doctor saving the life of his patient, passion is what drives our efforts. It allows us to dismiss logic to the extent to which we abolish all impossibilities, tapping into our imagination to develop ideas that often, are not only insane, but are great. We look for our passions, in our jobs and in textbooks, trying to identify what it is we love; what sparks that "fire" everyone talks about. Seldom do we reflect on the solutions we've already made, our greatest anxieties, or the solutions we've already created to alleviate them. Seldom do we reflect on what makes us suffer to discover what we truly love, instead we linger in our logic and our comfort, settling for a life of complacency.
You will find your passion, and you will be great. Never settle.
-your sister
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