posted October 19, 2005 10:55 AM         

Having a Scorpio Asc, I am passionate about everything I do... from my work, to my family, to my game (i play on-line games), etc.

posted October 19, 2005 11:27 AM         

Definition of Passion:

[n] intense passion or emotion
[n] any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love" or"he has a passion for **** fighting"
[n] strong feeling or emotion
[n] a feeling of strong sexual desire
[n] an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
[n] something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him"
[n] the suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~Benjamin Franklin

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love. ~Terri Guillemets

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~Albert Einstein

posted October 19, 2005 11:34 AM         

Good question (arent you a Scorp).......

Well sometimes I think I am the most passionate and intense person in the world haha....although I am glad to say I can channel a lot of that hot stuff into humour.....

For me, like Ms Muffet said, its not just sexual passion, its an enthusiasm for LIFE.......its like a bright and shiny light deep inside, that bursts out ......someone said to me earlier "you radiate passion".....this was in a musical setting...but I am passionate about a lot of things in life, including my family, friends, music, love, sex, dancing, food and then the negatives things too, I can get really charged up about.

Ive a theory....and it seems to bear out some truth, and that is passionate people seem to stay young.......
F O R E V E R............

I also found living with a dispassionate mother made me more passionate (although I am from a very extreme Aries father.....hehehehe). Thankfully I inherited his HEAT !!!

So guys what are ye all passionate about then ?
xxx

posted October 19, 2005 12:13 PM         

In its broadest definition, I’d say passion in a romantic sense is a zest for each other, and for life. I often go and sit in restaurants on my own just to watch the way people relate. It’s amazing how different couples connect with one another. Even obviously older couples that have probably been together for years can exhibit a startling difference in the way they relate. I’ve seen couples that seem like they’d rather be any place but in each others presence. They are both looking around the restaurant not paying attention to the other, not smiling, or even talking. Then there are couples that are looking into each other’s eyes with smiles on their faces and brightness in their countenance. They are talking and quite obviously lost in one another. One of the most beautiful things in the world is to see that kind of passion in the eyes of a 60+ married couple.

I think however that passion can also be a dangerous thing when not balanced with sincere love. I think it’s a bit like a drug – we all experience during the first part of a relationship, and when it seems to fade, many of us think the relationship is dead. At that point we can transform into passion junkies looking for our next high. Which seems so silly to me. The thing with passion is that it comes and it goes like the changing of the seasons. I think there are seasons in a relationship where people are incredibly passionate with one another, and other seasons where life and its many challenges grow too big and passion is hard to find. During passion’s winter, it is genuine love that carries a couple through. When the passion cools, a couple can wither without love to warm them.

posted October 19, 2005 07:32 PM         

I see passion as the willingness to give 100% of yourself. I also agree that it's like an addictive substance if it isn't grounded in something like love.

I love life, friends, family, great ppl, great food, conversations and all the amazing things this world has to offer!

Grab it all with both hands and enjoy!