What Passion REALLY Means

Has your heart ever skipped a beat when a person you were crazy about walked into a room? Have you ever gotten butterflies in your stomach when the person you desired was talking to you?

Well, pay heed to what I’m going to tell you next:

DO NOT marry the person you are passionate about.

If you looked up the word “passion” in the dictionary, you’d probably conclude that passion is all about lust, amorous love or hate, or all that’s in between. But the word passion really came from the story of Jesus – it refers to the pain and suffering He endured because of His great love for His people.

Therefore, if you look at the actual archaic meaning, passion really means to suffer. If we apply this  term to real life in a romantic sense:  to be passionate or to lust for someone is to undergo pure agony, particularly when the person in question does not return your affections.

As mentioned in an article I read previously: One gets to a point where “the inner turmoil of loving a ‘maniac’ loses its romantic sparkle and you want something (a relationship) that sticks.”

So why not leave the passion behind and be with someone who shares your hobbies and interests; someone who is nice yet self-assured – and most importantly, fully committed to you?

Review of Up in 3D

As mentioned previously, the boyfriend has been bugging me to watch Up with him. I’ve been shrugging it off due to disinterest, but because of our deal, I accompanied him to watch the movie yesterday night.

I have never caught a movie in 3D before and was caught a bit offguard when Cathay employees handed out these eyeglasses to us. The eyeglasses were too large for me and they kept falling off my face and that really annoyed me. Other than that, I was excited to experience firsthand watching the movie in 3D.

  
(Spoilers ahead)

The movie itself was based on a simple plot. Old man going on an extreme adventure to fulfill his dreams (and his late wife’s). It was difficult to fathom how an old man who depended heavily on a walking stick could ‘carry’ his house on his back and walk a long distance upon a rocky ground. I know it’s a cartoon – but I can’t get over this.

My colleagues were telling me how touching the story was and yadda yadda. Alright, yes, the fact that the old guy would go so far to fulfill the biggest dreams of his wife was touching. Well I can concede and agree that their life story was really sweet and romantic…. (Although I also can’t get over how the old foggy would make his weak wife climb up a steep hill)

But the fact is – the old guy is dumb. Why? Because he made an assumption and went too far ahead with it and almost got himself and others killed in the process. He assumed that his wife’s childhood ambition would stretch till her after-life, even though he had many opportunities to look into her adventure book and find out if she had changed her to-do list. Well, he found out eventually that she did. Her adult adventure was to spend her life with him – which she fulfilled.

As for the childhood hero who turned into a raging madman – I can only conclude this: Don’t over-idolise your heroes; they may not be who you think they are!

You will probably have thought I’m a hater by now. The reality is, I think Up is an interesting movie which I feel teaches realistic values through its unrealistic story. I did love the funny scenes – the naivety of Dog, the jovialness of Russell, the squeaky voice of Alpha the scary dog, and the colourful bird called Kevin.

Watching Up in 3D was in itself an adventure for me. The movie wasn’t too shabby, but I still prefer Dreamworks Animation!

Red-faced Firefox

I was tickled this morning when I opened my Mozilla Firefox.

I guess computers are so smart these days that they even have EQ.