Why do I do the things I do? Why do I get involved and invested to a point where I'm passionate with everything I commit to? I guess that's a good thing mostly, but sometimes you can become so invested in something that you take things personal. It's hard to turn it off, then you realize you've worded things wrong or reacted instead of acted.
One such situation came up recently and it all blew up with people getting offended and it caused a split. I don't feel I said anything offensive, and it wasn't just me but a WHOLE bunch of people involved all talking highly emotional and all taking things to heart. It just wasn't a good time for certain conversations to take place and things got heated.
My part was actually very small, but nonetheless I wish I hadn't even been involved because of the end result. Retrospect I guess. I hope things can be salvaged because I do feel certain people acted impulsively.
So why do I get so passionate? I guess that's just who I am and I won't apologize for that, or for wanting to improve things. I'm not a fan of stagnation, and if something can be better it should strive to be better. But not everyone thinks that way, and when you're in a group you need to realize that and understand that you can't change the way people are. That can be a tough pill to swallow sometimes, but it's a pill that must go down.
Anyway, I hope this isn't the end and that things can go back to normal. I doubt they will, but it really was an unnecessary ending to a volatile situation that was taken way out of context. But what's done is done, and that's that. Oh well, live and learn.
B-Out
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I think passion is a good thing, Brant. I think the trick with it though is to not let passion become the ruling force in anything. That's hard I know. We had an interesting and very timely sermon tonight from Luke's gospel on trusting Jesus and not worrying, I'm going to comment on it shortly. Just a thought.
Thanks, Ray. Yeah, sometimes it is hard. It's also hard when people just won't listen to you and you're trying so hard to get a point across. But sometimes you just need to back off for a while and take a different approach. Live and learn. :)
You are right, we often learn that the hard way though, don't we.
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