The first time I heard someone say this, it was in the Highlander movie. They were in a church and about ready to have the final battle to see who would be the last one standing when one of them stood and shouted this out “It’s Better to Burn out Than Fade Away!”
I know this saying has different meanings to different people, but it struck a chord in me and still does. To me it screams: I would rather fail continuously at trying the impossible than play it safe, walk on water than stay in the boat, strike out swinging than stand at the plate watching, strive for freedom rather than a life of security!
I love how Alan Armstrong put it: “If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you, and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”
Passion has the ability to create a way when there is no way. When others decide to give up and walk away, Passion will continue to push through. People who follow their Passion are those who are living their lives to the fullest. They are not on the sidelines watching life, but instead right in the middle of it with their sleeves rolled up and hands dirty!
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion,” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
If we go through life without ever following our Passion, then we never really lived…We are the Walking Dead – Alive just enough to get through life but never really experiencing anything. We are going through the motions of life; we are pretending to be alive, but on the inside we died years ago!
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75,” Benjamin Franklin.
If we are going to be on this planet for seventy five to one hundred years, then we owe it to ourselves and everyone around us to find our Passion and LIVE because it is Better to Burn Out Than To Fade Away!
Find Your Passion and You Will Find Your Life!