The definition of love in Webster’s goes on forever and never defines anything clearly. It covers every possible application of the word. My take on this is that they don’t know the answer! They are just covering all the bases. Check it out. Go look for yourself. In my opinion you will be as confused as I am.
Now Webster’s definition of the word Passion is a one liner:
“A strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something or about doing something”
Are you kidding me, Merriam Webster? Please forgive me, but you are wrong.
Passion can enable all of the same emotions as love. This one liner comes nowhere close to a reasonable definition of the word. Passion is intense, unrelenting, painful, gut wrenching and insatiable.
Now the combination of these two words creates a deep burning emotion. I believe that love can manifest itself in different forms. I love my kids, for example. The love for them is different than the love I have for my wife. I believe that the love I have for my wife has deepened over the years and is different than the love I had for her when we were in our teens. But passionate love, well that is something altogether different.
Have you ever experienced passionate love? It is like the perfect storm. It is a tsunami of love. You can drown in this type of love. Literally drown. I can remember when I first fell in love with the woman who would be my wife. We have now been together for over forty years. We have had our ups and downs and I remember in our early relationship when she wanted to end it. When she told me, I couldn’t breathe. My life was over and I was drowning in a pit of despair. That is passionate love!
I believe that when I was younger the love I had for my wife combined the two powerful emotions of love and passion. Over time perhaps the passion has been replaced by the deepening of the love. The love has not in any way diminished; it has deepened and gotten stronger as perhaps the passion has lessened.
So as I think about my characters what does this mean? Bill Ross is a passionate supporter of Kilmarnock FC. It is a painful unrelenting passion and is felt in his gut based upon the fortunes of his team whether good or bad. It is like a bi-polar disorder, huge swings in emotion. I win means elation, a loss and he is suicidal. It is the same with his son Tommy and his beloved Oakland Raiders. In my opinion this is passion in it’s purest sense. It is not love it is raw passion.
Bill Ross loves his wife Elaine deeply. Tommy loves his daughter Claire, and would protect her with his life. Marie loves Shelly in the same way.
These characters are deep and complex. I will do my best in future books continue to have you, the reader, experience this complexity and feel the intensity of their emotions as their lives intertwine in the Detective Bill Ross Crime Series.
The definition of love in Webster’s goes on forever and never defines anything clearly. It covers every possible application of the word. My take on this is that they don’t know the answer! They are just covering all the bases. Check it out. Go look for yourself. In my opinion you will be as confused as I am.Now Webster’s definition of the word Passion is a one liner:“A strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something or about doing something”Are you kidding me, Merriam Webster? Please forgive me, but you are wrong.Passion can enable all of the same emotions as love. This one liner comes nowhere close to a reasonable definition of the word. Passion is intense, unrelenting, painful, gut wrenching and insatiable.Now the combination of these two words creates a deep burning emotion. I believe that love can manifest itself in different forms. I love my kids, for example. The love for them is different than the love I have for my wife. I believe that the love I have for my wife has deepened over the years and is different than the love I had for her when we were in our teens. But passionate love, well that is something altogether different.Have you ever experienced passionate love? It is like the perfect storm. It is a tsunami of love. You can drown in this type of love. Literally drown. I can remember when I first fell in love with the woman who would be my wife. We have now been together for over forty years. We have had our ups and downs and I remember in our early relationship when she wanted to end it. When she told me, I couldn’t breathe. My life was over and I was drowning in a pit of despair. That is passionate love! I believe that when I was younger the love I had for my wife combined the two powerful emotions of love and passion. Over time perhaps the passion has been replaced by the deepening of the love. The love has not in any way diminished; it has deepened and gotten stronger as perhaps the passion has lessened.So as I think about my characters what does this mean? Bill Ross is a passionate supporter of Kilmarnock FC. It is a painful unrelenting passion and is felt in his gut based upon the fortunes of his team whether good or bad. It is like a bi-polar disorder, huge swings in emotion. I win means elation, a loss and he is suicidal. It is the same with his son Tommy and his beloved Oakland Raiders. In my opinion this is passion in it’s purest sense. It is not love it is raw passion.Bill Ross loves his wife Elaine deeply. Tommy loves his daughter Claire, and would protect her with his life. Marie loves Shelly in the same way.These characters are deep and complex. I will do my best in future books continue to have you, the reader, experience this complexity and feel the intensity of their emotions as their lives intertwine in the Detective Bill Ross Crime Series.
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