Can Passions become Detrimental?
Yes, and this is what happened in my situation. At some point during the first year of high school, I discovered poetry. I have read poems before, mostly in English Literature classes during secondary school, and I knew the names of a handful of renowned poets. However, I was never explicitly interested in the field and never even remotely showed any interest towards reading poems in my leisure time. That changed once I became a high schooler; the predominant subject that prevailed my mind was poetry. If I was not doing five hours' worth of intense Google research on some poet’s biography, I...