People I Admire

May 3, 2008

I always find fault in people. Some would find it really annoying and offensive, but honest criticism always draws blood—so does birth, so does menstruation, so does hemmhoroids. Let’s just say that criticism is one of the less painful ways to find out just how human we are. Since I love sticking your humanity in your face because I love to celebrate it (ironically enough), I can be one of your harshest critics and/or ardent admirers.

 

Imperfections aside, passion is something I admire, in whatever form. It’s very important to me because it’s so rare in this century of caffeine-drugged, earphone-plugged, television and Internet junkies who have desires patterned after The Average Semi-Happy Human’s desires. No, I’m not talking about passion as in a pointless and mindless "love" for something (my belief is that you can’t love anything or anybody without understanding the thing or person completely). Passion, meaning loving something because you can’t live any other way and you know exactly why.

 

So why should you care about all this? No reason. It’s just that there are only a handful of people I seriously admire and I’d like to share with you who they are.  

 
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