Living Life Passionately

First off, I can't believe I didn't say this in my last post but HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

I just want to say that I am feeling much better since the time of my last post. Maybe I just needed to write/type things out to let me feel better... On that note this post will be somewhat related to my last post. I want to talk of something that is very important to me, and that point is passion.

I have noticed a few things about the people. But one thing that seemed to perturb me the most is the fact that people here seem to lack passion. When I say that people lack passion, I am not saying that the English are not good at anything, it's just that people don't really seem to have a love of what they are doing. Furthermore, people don't seem to lose themselves in the moment.
Let me illustrate with a few examples. The other day there was some free concert thing with one of the musical groups on campus. While they were technically sound, they lacked a little something to make it a great performance. In my opinion, it's that they were lacking passion. They weren't losing themselves to the music. I hate to say it but it ended up being pretty boring.

So for my major/course, we have to attend a few guest lectures who work at forensics labs and such. Almost all of them seemed very pointless for us to attend. In some aspects it was pointless for us to attend those lectures. However, some of the information and talks were quite interesting. The problem is none of them talked as if they had passion for the work they are doing. It essentially ended up being just a "job" to them. Okay, I can understand that, it is a job, but c'mon! They seem to be forgetting that they are working in a forensics lab. They are helping society find justice. It shouldn't have been a job; it should have been a calling.
What is wrong with these people? I shouldn't really say that because there is nothing wrong with them. I have come to realize that it may partially have to do with the education system in England. Essentially by the time people are 14 or 15 they have to decide what field they want to go into. From then on, their education is "limited" to areas relevant to their proposed career paths. You would think that would make for people really knowledgeable about their subject field/occupation but not really. In my opinion, it seems that people are essentially forced into their studies.

In America, we are given pretty much a well rounded education through high school - we should have classes in math, science, history, literature, etc. we should have a dabble in pretty much all fields. even into college or undergrad educaiton, we take a well rounded approach, with some focus going toward your major. Essentially, it isn't until grad school where your education is limited to your career path (even then there is still some leeway about what electives you take). what I'm trying to say is, the American educational system allows us to essentially find what we love to do or grow into loving. We are given this well rounded approach so that we can choose what we are passionate about. As a matter of fact, during my undergrad years I changed my major some three times eventually settling on anthropology, now I love what I am doing. It's this love that drives us (well me anyway) toward excellence. It's almost like the Japanese, if you are going to do something, do it with your entire spirit, which will lead toward perfection (even if perfection cannot be achieved).

However, this doesn't really explain the lack of passion in the music group. As in love, I like to lose myself in the moment, put myself out on the line. In other words, it seems people are afraid to lose themselves in the moment, afraid to be moved. Why is that? I really have no idea. but then again this applies to everyone really. Every once in a while people should be able to lose themselves in a moment. Granted sometimes people can lose themselves in their work, but what I'm saying is people should lose themselves in something that their passionate about... whatever I'm not making much sense anymore...