PASSION VS PATIENCE
Ryan Rowe
Friday, April 8th, 2005, 9:38am
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Photo by James Taylor of England

They say that patience is a virtue.  Well, if that's true then passion must be a vice.  At least in the context of relationships!  Many of mine have been pretty short and intense and I think it's because I've always thought with my heart not my head.  I see passion as a requisite element for sparks to fly, so I figure if it scares a woman away, it's probably just as well.

I've just come off a couple of months of seeing a really cool woman who made my heart go pitter-patter.  I told myself in the beginning, take it slow, take it slow, this one's different.  My head was telling me that.  But my locomotive heart steamed ahead.  I let myself go and before I knew it, I think I fell for her.  Not a bad thing at all, you might say, except that she didn't seem to want to take it that way.

"Patience, Ryan." she said.  "Just because you're passionate right away doesn't mean I have to be."

Maybe I didn't care, or didn't want to take the advice, or if I even knew how to slow down... Even if I had, I think I was going too fast by that point.  I saw my trip to Latin America coming up, and I wanted all or nothing.  To tell you the truth, I'm not sure I ever really knew what she wanted.  Anyways, I got really scared that I would get hurt and I decided I couldn't continue seeing her...

You know ... I'm not a patient person.  For a long time, passion and romance have been seize the day type things for me ... in fact I even met this woman in a seize the day moment ... but I'm beginning to rethink that modus operandus.  In this instance, a little patience may have worked wonders.

MORE:  LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN HURT
comments   |   photos   |   other articles