Passion

Passion is dead. At some point in time we decided that searching for what you're passionate for was too much work. We've instead settled for this perfect little cut out box of "happiness" this suburban white picket fence straight A student life, that's not a passion that's a prison. There are people in my life who are brought to tears over anything less than the perfect gilded A++++++++++. All we want to do is label everything. I swear there are percentages on everything and it's killing us it's killing our chance at passion and at happiness.

That's what I want to find pure exciting fingertip shaking passion. Wether it's as a world renowned surgeon or a hippie in a van. When is the last time you felt so excited about something you could not PHYSICALLY contain it? Thinking about it made your voice crack and no one could understand how wonderfully passionate you were. My band teacher made a perfect analogy he said we played like we had a crap sandwich in one hand and a caramel cheesecake in the other, and we go at both with the same eh attitude. That's how we go about our lives and frankly I DON'T WANT MY LIFE TO BE A CRAP SANDWICH. I want freakin Jesus quality cheesecake.

We need to find our passion (cliché comin up) because we don't know how long we have. This summer my mom was in a crazy accident were a 60 foot tree crushed her right in front of me (that's a story for later) on a perfectly normal day. And for good 20 minutes I thought my mom was dead (she's all good now). One minute she was alive and then for all I knew she was gone. How suck is that? Life ends in a second and we can either live a meh life absent of love and full of Doritos or we can suck the marrow out of every day and live it to the fullest (pretty sure part of that is from Dead Poets Society).

All I want from my life is pure unadulterated passion, a love for life. It's such a simple thing but it's so hard to break away from the norm. But if anything comes from this post I want you to feel challenged to not be satisfied with an average life. Pursue happiness with whatever heart you have and find your passion wherever it may be.

Live long and prosper
Meow and out

- Juan Keem