Well, hello there. It's Morgan Harper-Nichols here. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space

where I turn the lens on various topics and subjects in hopes to learn something new or see something in a new way.

And today we're talking about what to do when you've lost your sense of passion.

Thank you so much for listening.

This word passion is a big one. It's an interesting one. It's one that we tend to associate with a strong feeling or emotion or an object of someone's love. These are just from Miriam Webster's definition of the

word passion. And that word passion can get applied to so many different things. However,

you may have heard this before, but the word passion actually has even more interesting origins

in that it is actually related to the word

suffering. And from my understanding, we see this definition in ancient Greek and Latin. And kind of

the most close reference that I can think of this word passion as suffering is as in this context,

it's passion of Christ, the suffering of Christ. So it's an

interesting word that gets applied to a lot of different things in the English language. And yet,

I find myself saying that sometimes. I find myself saying like, I feel like I've lost my sense

of passion with, with with work for instance or

with the project I'm working on. It's that that moment of no longer feeling driven or motivated. So

it's interesting that the origins of this word start with this concept of suffering, but then it gets

to this strong emotion thing.

But I think that there might be something connected there.

So I was reading the introduction to one of my favorite books, and that is Letters to a Young

Poet by Rainer Maria Roker, one of my favorite poets. And I had forgotten this part of the story

that the young poet that Roka is writing to was actually a student of the same military school

that Roka had been to years before. And Roka's time at this military school was actually a

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