“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. ”
With these lines from the poem “On reason and passion” by Khalil Gibran, I find myself defining the sort of inner storm I am amidst. As dashing man, I want to see myself, both quick of wit and versed in four languages, two yet to fathom. Fit and mettle, with eyes hungry for knowledge in ambivalent spheres like psychology and programming in Python. The proud father and prudent husband. Of being such man, my mind with appetite daydream. The traits and skills like these l am with passion reaching to acquire. To such a goal to move is not an easy job though, the threat to fall and lose your confidence in self, progresses with the height of passion in correlation.
Statistics say that 68% of male respondents in age from 24 to 36 wish to change career. I am 32 and count myself among them. The English language was a hobby of mine for a long time and though my current workplace may be counted as a “dream job” by some, the lack of both positive financial prospects and necessity for English, forces me to consider changing it for good. The need to develop into a better version of myself hits me especially hard, due the fact that I have become a father. On the other hand, one must invoke diligence dealing with financial matters, for what the worth of a lion not being able to fetch a pray for his pride.
To achieve my goals I have entered University, started to learn Spanish, read a book by Allen B. Downey «Think Python” and exercise in a gym, but above all I devote myself and my time to my daughter. I hope to learn Chinese in the future. I reckon, I only need to navigate this path in the storm of “reason and passion” furthermore and heed the voices of our wise predecessors for not to stray away. The aforementioned philosopher, poet and artist Khalil Gibran bequeathed us with words I hold dear: “direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes”.