Have you ever read a book and found a passage that seems like it was written just for you...or perhaps could have been written BY you? It just seems to explain everything and it's the perfect words for just that moment in your life?
this excerpt comes from the diary of the main character, Maria. But I identify with it so completely that it might as well have come from my own diary.....
"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 it's path.
no one wants thier life thrown into chaos. that i 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 they are the engineers of the superseded.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 thin 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."
-Eleven minutes, a novel by Paulo Coelho
this excerpt comes from the diary of the main character, Maria. But I identify with it so completely that it might as well have come from my own diary.....
"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 it's path.
no one wants thier life thrown into chaos. that i 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 they are the engineers of the superseded.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 thin 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."
-Eleven minutes, a novel by Paulo Coelho
sweetzen:
thats pretty fucking awesome!
brightredscream:
That's incredible!