Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping,
working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it
appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is
why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of
sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the
engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they
surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the
solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for
their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric
because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something
unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to
it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I
don't know.
