friends of passion
"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."- Clifton Fadiman
Luckily this is not true here! Friendship is measured by the comfort with which exposed passion is embraced.
P.S. Keyword search in the Google image archive for "exposed" or "passion" only with care. Passion is apparently most common portrayed through sex or Jesus, and exposed, well... Interestingly, search for both at the same time is .. safer.
1 Comments on "friends of passion":
Passion! What a powerful topic.
However I feel compelled to point out that I believe Clifton's comment still holds true, even in this arena. It is just that this circle of us at an early stage of that friendship. He says: "...the number of things they no longer need mention." They have been mentioned already then, no? Or at least the relationship has a history that means the communication can take place on a different plane.
I didn't start this comment in order to be pedantic. It struck me as odd that we could discuss such a topic as passion through an internet blog. The two concepts seem dissonant to me. Passion describes a high state of emotional attachment. ASCII and HTML seem to me to be very poor conveyors of emotion. I might even go so far as to say that we do not expose passion here, as much as expose ideas that inspire passion. (Of course, if you know the contributor well enough, then Clifton's comment applies, and you can read-in a level of passion that cannot be easily conveyed in the text.)
Perhaps I am being to harsh on ye olde blogging again. "There goes Andrew, the technophobe, internet bashing again." Well, my web challenges were laid before you all from the start. Indeed, they still hold true on this topic - with a decent selection of links, I can easily arouse passion from some pretty astounding content out there - mostly from people like the contributors to this forum. It's just that it can get so unfocussed and out of control that it usually ends up overwhelming me. I like things I can get my head around - and that actually take up some room!
And yet, if I sit and conjure up images of passion, friends of passion, and people being passionate about anything, those images cannot be conveyed by smileys, emoticons, LOL's, or any other pathetic attempts that we cyber-correspondents have concocted in an attempt to put the 93(?)% non-textual (78% of all statistics are made up on the spot) component of human conversation back into play. (Did I mention that passion can sometimes be conveyed by run-on sentences?)
Mind you, with an appropriate level of traditional friendship (i.e. have at least met in person), I find that an LOL can evoke the image of the person I know laughing out loud, and that is sufficient. Then again, the LOL usually has to be explicitly there first - hardly a thing that is "no longer mentioned".
I'm rambling and having some fun with this because I am currently at a stage where I am working hard to create some passion in my life. A blog is not the first place I would necessarily turn to, but if I could gather this circle in a room - absolutely.
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