The power of passion

Earlier this week, Émile Allais, a great French ski personality passed away at more than 100 years of age. Beside an impressive sporting and professional legacy, he had something few mentioned in the various memorial pieces I read. I was inhabited by a burning passion for everything “ski”.

That's right, passion, the high-octane fuel for supercharged life and achievement. After hearing of his passing, my second thought was to think, how many young women and men still have that burning fire within them to achieve an exceptional existence and are our busy, chaotic lives still allowing for that magic ingredient to survive and thrive inside ourselves?

I'm convinced that whoever we are, passion can live inside us all; weather we are pastry chef, software engineer, second-grade teacher, helicopter pilot or brick-layer. Have we ever taken the time to look for it? Have we been fortunate enough to find it? More importantly, if we have, what have done with it?

Have we neglected it and let it whither, or instead, have we continuously nurtured it and invigorated it throughout our lives? I wish I could answer that question by the later...