Passion is when your love for something is infectious and brings more people to love the same. Possessiveness is when your love prevents people for loving the same.
So for example my lego modules were free for anyone to try and play with them. I would love to give more information about, history, etc etc and could see someone else get inspired and try that for himself. Possessiveness is where everyone else could see them, but if they crossed the line and asked me about where i got those unique parts from, that was it!!!. Ok this is an imaginary example - my bhanjaa has perused my collection sufficiently well that I cannot find some things. A better example would be - Br. Thomas in general is quite passionate about Shareeah, Islam, Dawah and that radiance is evident in his talk.
Back on this topic, passion and possessiveness are two aspects that are very evident in a persons speech. The words and emotions match perfectly for each quality. With passion, there will be hope that the world is big enough for all of us and more is merrier. With possessiveness, customer service is lacking.
Now passion and possessiveness are not limted to individuals but are equally applied to groups. These groups can be managing groups aka the organising committee aka the 'elders'. In passion the managing group takes responsibility for carrying out the main event but at the same time encourages others (sometimes forcefully) to be a part of the event. With passion comes the understanding to include more people at all points of the program, but to be ready to fall back on the core managing group if things do not work out right. Under possessiveness the same group does not even look out for external assistance. The assistance may be lying under their noses but they refuse to sniff it.
This post started off with one method to address a coterie that develops over time, that is not flexible enough to extend its outreach, with the problem lying in the substitution of passion for possessiveness.
Is possessiveness bad? No, it is needed at many times where the job/situation demands that.
7 comments:
Soooo interesting... I think in my personal life I tend to portray more possessive characteristics, but when it comes to teamwork and the like, I am passionate. Either way, the nafs is a dangerous thing...
passion is good until it becomes possesiveness..
possessiveness is bad until it becomes source of inspiration to others..
Important thing is what are you passionate or possessive about?
Good causes, Vitures..Islam.. Culture..
Both are two sides of same coin.. now what matters is how do you use that coin? where do you spend it? On self , on community or society.. on humanity ?
Or do you toss it in a magic-fountain and ask for a wish?
t2: what kind of coins do you collect?
I think judging what someone is passionate/ possessive about is relative, as are our values. For example, if someone is passionate about the Palestine/ Israel issue (most of us are on one side or the other), how would you decide if it's a good cause or not, objectively?
The US legal system is based on the betterment of the individual, but proper Shariah is based on the betterment of the community. Which would work better in modern say society- probably something in the middle?
And I'll stop right there :)
I used to ancient coins.. then I gave it to somebody.. a kid who i dont remember now...
there is always some discrepency between laws of land and what people like to follow and what is good for future.. and soon laws become archaic..
"possessiveness is bad until it becomes source of inspiration to others.."
Please explain or even better give an example.
Unless the coin is the one from Sholay :)
sholay coin is old King George IV ?? Coins.. I had couple of them..
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