Dating + Life = “Passion”

By: Kenneth Stepp

Attempting to define the undefinable. That’s my goal today. The word get’s thrown around like midget wrestlers in a bouncy ring. But what does it mean? I could always ask Mr Google.

1. Strong and barely controllable emotion.

“a man of impetuous passion”

The obvious flaw in this one is the whole gender thing. This was the best Mr Google could come up with. I have passion. I have been told I am passionate. When I hear the word my mind goes to several places. Being passionate, in my case, has been used in 3 categories. The first is what I do in my nonprofit. I wake up before 2:00 am 7 days a week and work 5 hours on my nonprofit. If I do not do this, I can’t help anyone. It’s a commitment I made to myself. Is this passion? Some days it’s monotonous and dull.

The second way passion has been used to describe me was this morning. It’s what inspired me to write about passion at this moment. Yesterday I posted an article about PTSD. My middle son developed a severe case while in combat with the Army. One of the many injuries he returned with. For those that do not grasp what life is like for them, I can help. Imagine you are on your way home from work, you are recounting the day, or maybe thinking of what you need to do when you get home. You’re sitting at a light, your door is violently opened, a robber sticks a gun in your face and is screaming orders at you. What you feel going through your body is almost electric. Now imagine life like that 24/7. Pot is the only known cure. Because it is still illegal, my son goes without a usable treatment and suffers greatly. Someone commented on pot being addictive and blah blah blah… Many pharmaceuticals are addictive. Maybe even most. But they still heal. I deleted his comment. He came back and did it again. Now he knows what MY passion looks like.

And last but certainly not least. Being sexually passionate. Because I use to write about sexuality, people found me. I used a different name when writing about it. I have severe ADD, along with that came too super powers. The first, a high IQ. The second, the ability to hyper focus. This allows me to learn a lot in less time. I have about 400 hours of intense study on sexuality in just the last year. Techniques, types, how to train yourself to achieve certain things, etc. I suppose this is a passion about being more passionate. What happened as a result of my stealthy writing was interesting. Couples found me. Many asked if I would help them. Some were at the end of their relationships. A few had already looked elsewhere. In the end I was allowed to make a difference to some. It was incredible and an honor. I did delete all the articles though. Not ready to become an unlicensed counselor. So, sexuality can be both a passion, and passionate. Who knew? So, I have told my passion story and the three areas of my psyche that relates to passion. There are others, I’m sure. Like I spoke about with these lost couples. I only talk about what I have proven with myself. It helps keep me honest. It keeps me from saying something I have not experienced myself. I actually helps me feel I mattered at some point in time. Two days ago my best friend told me, “Whoever she is will have her world rocked”. She always says the nicest things at the moment I need to hear it. Plus, it made me think…..

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thank you Ralph. You said in few words what I couldn’t on an entire page. To my readers, I can only offer this…. “What he said”

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