Do Passion and Reason conflict? There has always been an age old battle between the two. Yet I'm starting to think that the reason this battle will never be resolved is because there is no conflict in the first place. Passion and Reason are obviously very different things. And if you use them as a solution to the same problem you'd get incredibly different answers. But I'm starting to realize that the problem isn't which to use, its where the proper place of each is. Reason and Passion should never be used for the same thing. They belong in completely different categories. Passion is what guides our lives, our goals, our values. It's what tells us what we wish to live for. If I'm passionate about a cause then I'll guide my life towards that cause. Passion decides where our lives go. Reason, on the other hand, is a tool to help us reach our goals. If I'm passionate about a certain goal, I use reason to accomplish that goal. Reason is what gets us to where we want to go. Passion is the rail, reason the wheels. Both are needed to live a satisfactory life. You can be ruled entirely by reason, because then how would you decide what to do with your life? If reason is strictly followed, everyone would have the same exact goals, because there is no inherent difference between two people. It's our passions that make us different. That make us unique. It's our passions that inspire us to use Reason in a productive manner. You also can't live your life with Passion alone. Being passionate about something doesn't get that something done. Just because I care about gay rights doesn't change the status of gay rights in the US. I need by reason to help me create the change. But I need my passion to have the desire to create that change. I think we have a serious problem when we claim that the two are opposite, and fight one with the other. That's incredibly destructive to ourself. Because we are destroying one essential part of ourself with another. The significant part is that logic is something that guides you. It doesn't give you a purpose. It can't tell you what your ultimate goal should be. But it can guide you to that goal. Passion is what gives us purpose, logic is a tool to achieve that purpose. This is why I don't think they conflict with one another, logic is a means to achieve our passion.

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