Why your passions can rule the world

Music is one of my many passions. Music of all kinds. Some music can make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Move me. Listening to a CD has a calming effect that I don’t think can be described… only felt. Some songs have a way of transporting me to the place I was when I first heard them. (Who doesn’t want to remember the Running Man marathon at my high school dance?) Memories come flooding back. Good memories, mediocre ones… but the problem I was faced with before the song came on vanishes; at least for a little while.

Music can tell us stories about passion. When Otis Redding cries out about “These Arms of Mine“.. you can feel his pain… his longing. He sang with such passion. He cried out for that woman that he yearned to hold. I believe him. I also know that I’m sure he got her … and held her tight.

I don’t presume to know everything about everything. That’s crazy talk. But I do know that if you proceed through life the way Otis did when he DEMANDED … BEGGED for that change that’s gonna come then you can learn whatever you want. You can sell whatever it is you want to sell. You can write whatever you want to write. Now go … close the browser window and explore your passion.