An Essay About Passions

How We Experience Passion Everyone is passionate about something, whether it's college sports or the judical system of our country. Throughout This I Believe the reader learns about the passions of various people from various walks of life, but we also take in how these people experience them. In the essays In Giving I Connect With Others by Isabele Allende and Getting Angry Can Be A Good Thing by Cecilia Munoz we see two mirrored forms of passion; unyeilding love and slow burning anger. Isabele Allende begins her essay saying, "I have lived with passion and in a hurry." That is, until her daughter fell into a coma in 1992. Desperately clinging to the time she had left with her child, she noticed how giving her 28 year old was. She was a volenteer, putting in eight hours of work six days a week at a women's and children's shelter. Her daughter gave much and needed little. Once she passed, Isabele took this to heart and began to live in the light of her daughter's legacy: "You only have what you give. It's by spending yourself that you become rich." While she used to live in a state of hurry, she is now …show more content…
As a seventeen year old daughter of Bolivian immigrants growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, Munoz realized the power of anger when a friend said if the U.S. ever went to war with Latin America, her parents should be locked away in an internment camp. Cecilia says in her essay, "My outrage that day became the propellant of my life, driving me straight to the civil rights movement, where I've worked ever since." She agknowleges, however, that "anger has a way of hollowing your insides" and can leave you with nothing but a bleak outlook on life. To fill this void she thinks of those who she fights to protect, she thinks of faith, family, and the goodness of people around her. Her passion is protecting those without justice, and to do that she gets