When my daughter was a little child, my mother would
take her to the garden, every evening. On days, when I would join them, I would
notice two types of children being escorted to the play area. The first were
yet to walk and would be wheeled around in prams. The second types were able to
walk and were either held by hand or followed to ensure that they did not run out
of sight.
Most prams seemed quite sturdy but the wheels helped
move them around easily. The ones who pushed the prams seemed quite in control
and were able to easily do other tasks like talk to neighbours or knit sweaters
or make phone calls. However, the most flushed were the ones who had children
who could run. The guardian was practically pulled along and about
all the adult could do was to guide the child in the general direction they
wanted it to go.
The analogy is apt
for understanding the difference between working and pursing a passion. Working
is like pushing the pram. The wheels tell us to push, we can be detached and
yet it would remain there. Passion on the other hand is like walking a child.
You cannot take your attention away! Passion pulls you along like your child
forces you to run behind to keep apace.
That’s the power of
passion. When you are doing what you are passionate about, once you get started, the
project practically does itself. You get into a focus zone where you see no
distractions, you hear no other calls and you feel no other pulls of needs such
as food and sleep... Power of passion pulls you to discover your potential and
take you to happiness.
So often, so many
of us crave for a vehicle – like the baby pram – that can move smoothly and
allow us to do other things. However our happiness will be found in discovering
our passion that will pull us to the path of true purpose. For this we need to
bring our passion from the confines of the comfort zone and allow it to set
foot on ground so that it can run... and pull us along!
Let’s
step beyond the comfort zone cool...
Life will sprint as power of passion pulls!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
Goa, India.
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