I, like many others I’m sure, have always been an incredibly passionate person about a broad scope of interests. So passionate, in fact, that I often immerse myself so deeply into the culture of whatever it is that I am currently impassioned with to the point where I have to spend a pretty ridiculous amount of time researching and studying up so I know everything about its history and being.
In order for me to truly express my, let’s face it, obsession, I feel that I have to be so fervent on the subject and be so closely connected to it that no one could ever question my devotion to whatever it is. The other equally-passionate friends of mine have also revealed an actual level of emotional strain from feeling this much ardor and affection and never truly feeling like you’ve done all that you can do to own that fascination. I have been known to go to great lengths (not in a creepy way or anything) to be a human Wikipedia on the subject just to try and dull the agony of not being able to actually be a moving part of my passions. So, in my reality, I love my appreciations so much that it actually hurts.
This strange connection to my favorite entertainments, hobbies and guilty pleasures has helped shape me as who I am today. My fierce passion is what gets me up and going every day to do the best that I can, so one day I will be able to be a part of all of the things I have been so fervidly following. Entertainment has been the strongest passion for me throughout the years, and I could not thank some of my favorite icons such as: Tim Burton (film director), Peter Jackson (film director), J.R.R. Tolkien (author) or Alain Boubil (lyricist) enough for giving me the passion it took to try my luck in the film and music industry.
There will always be certain lyrics and screenplays that are so good that they not only give me goose bumps, but, as I like to say, they also “hurt my heart.” I owe this strange, uncomfortable affection so much for making me a well-read lover of the arts and letting it take me from just a crazy fan to, hopefully, a behind-the-scenes member and contributor to the industry so that whatever it is we produce can bring someone else the same painful joy it has brought me. To this day, my excruciating love for all things music, movies, musicals, books, etc. plays a major role in my everyday life and in my overall future. I look forward to the day that I am so happy with my part in the background of it all that it hurts, in a good way.
So with that, I urge you to find what your passion is, the one thing you love so much that you even find it agonizing, and hold onto it, because passion that hurts can be a beautiful thing, and you can do great things with it.
