Passion vs. Privilege

What is the relationship between passion and privilege?

Photo by Geraldine Rocha

       Can the word passion ever be truly defined? The word passion in the dictionary is defined as: intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction. But what does that really mean. For me passion is something that we can all feel. It’s that indescribable feeling you get when you do something you love. For example, my passions are Children, Education, and Black & White Photography. When I attend the child development and photography classes here at Chabot I lost myself. My passion for children is incredibly strong, my willingness to help out children through different stages of life. Helping them create more than path for them to choose and follow. Helping them become someone people will respect. While my passion for photography it's so big that I can spend 6hrs in the dark room or hand coloring a photograph. Even though to most people 6hrs seems like a long time to me it only feels like an hour to me. Passion is feeling inspired towards the thing you love the most. Whether that is photography, children, cars, motorcycles, anthropology, and etc.

Photo by Geraldine Rocha

          Then we have privilege, privilege in the dictionary is defined as: to accord a higher value or superior position. Once again I say what the hell that even means. Truly no one knows the definition they just understand what the word means. But privilege plays an important role in passion. For what is passion without privilege. Privilege allows passion to grow and expand. Having the privilege of finding what you really love, what truly moves you to work harder towards it. Even in a basic sentence we can tell the difference. For example:

• I like working on cars.
• I love working on cars.

           When people use the word "like" they clearly state they see it more as a hobby or a time killer. But when the person uses "love" it is clear it's something they enjoy doing regardless of the time they spend on it. It becomes a joy to do something you love, rather than a hassle to do something they like at times.