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Without passion, life can start to look bleak. Without an intense burning for something greater or something more, our soul begins to decay. Yet most of us are content to live our lives mostly without it. We let passion spontaneously pop up in our lives at the beginning of a new relationship or when we become entrenched in a great book but it’s rarely something we pursue and it’s certainly never something with actively try to cultivate. Yet, when we are fully entrenched in our passion, we are the most alive and happy we ever feel. Perhaps we are content...

“I’ve never seen a hearse with a trailer hitch.” -Kristian Bush There are numerous observable patterns about the human condition. Patterns which make it easy for us to speculate on the outcome of any given situation. Specifically, as we age, the ways in which the human body begins to fail has become predictable. In fact, there is no bigger data set than that of the eventual break down and deterioration of the human machine. If you subtract the roughly 7.4 billion people who are alive right now, the earth has seen around 100.8 billion people die before us. And whether...

You know what I love to quit doing? Figuring out my purpose. The process is exhaustive and usually yields little results. The truth is, I have no idea what we’re doing here. Specifically, the human race I mean. Think about it; Seven billion bi-pods, endlessly running around, seeking the approval of other bi-pods, trying to “make ends meet,” whatever that means in the context of the universe; all of this while floating on this seemingly blue sphere in an endless black abyss. Could anyone really know? The universe being vast like it is, humans being complex like we are, it...