Thursday, February 19, 2009

Passion and Glory

I heard this song called 'Eye of the Tiger' by some random chance. Awesome song.
And landed up with this question.
What would make someone give up passion for glory ? Can that be called as glory becoming a passion ?
Is it wrong if someone has glory as a passion ?


3 comments:

Loong said...

I thought both of them come together?
glory without passion only happens in movie or fairy tales. I haven't meet any one with glory without putting in passion.

Aravind said...

You have asked three questions and here's my take -
1. The glory! It overwhelms most. The (short term) pleasure of glory lures people. Passion could lead to glory, but usually with a lot of effort.
2. Yes. The addiction to glory could be called a passion.
3. Not usually. Not as long as the means(and the end) to glory is not inhumane.

loop said...

@ Loong
Yea, but a lot of times when glory becomes the focus, the actual passion would take a back seat. Developing (and a lot of times faking) newer passions just for the sake of glory is what I meant by "giving up passion" I think.

@ Aravind
What do you think would be more fulfilling ? :)
Sticking to one's passions irrespective of whether it would get them glory or strive to get glory ?