Do You Choose Passion OR Sanity?
I’ve been reading through my old writings, you know all the ones about passionate love and passionate love lost . They made me slightly famous, after all, back in the day.
I wrote these and poems as a single woman living in San Francisco, passionately seeking along with all of you. In the past 20 plus years of dating and relationships I’ve had my heart broken a few times as well as broken other people’s hearts. There were multiple Ones, all lost in the winds of change.
Passionate love is beautiful but can also be excruciatingly painful. There have been times where it just doesn’t seem worth the agony. The highs, the lows, the panic. The non stop doodling another’s name in the corner of our post-it note. We go mad with the euphoria and then mad again with the pain. Sometimes multiple times with the same person…
But is it all worth it? Or would a simple, passionless life be better? We’d probably all get more accomplished. And our head would be clear and focused.
A few months ago I had decided that I would need or want ever again. It became to focus elsewhere and maintain my sanity. My daughter, my career, and baking the perfect blueberry muffin were all I cared about. Then I watched this movie…
