If you read the yellow press, which makes money by supplying the consumer with the freshest and hottest gossip, then a person will surely stumble upon the word “passion”. The reader, which is quite natural, asks himself: “What is passion?”. This is an interesting question. The answer to it we will do today.
“A soul is torn between sweetness and pain”
Now it will become clear why we chose the line from the song of the group “Picnic” as the title. And we will study the etymology of “passion”, the meaning of the word will be considered a little later.
In Russian, the definition migrated from French, where it meant “subject of passion”, “passion” or “love”. This information is unlikely to surprise anyone. Much more interesting is the other: in Latin, from which the French word is derived, passio means both “suffering” and “passion”. If desired, an entire morality can be extracted from etymology, for example, this: no matter how sweet love passions may be, their excess leads to suffering. Anyway, if you think about it, then no passion leads to good, be it love for a woman or for any other subject of adoration. And in that, and in another case, when a person receives a refusal, is faced with the inability to possess something, suffering inevitably ensues.
As you can see, the question of what passion is not simple, but further interesting.
Value
After we discovered the secret of the etymology of the object of study, I immediately want to think about this: if passion is passion, love or their object, then why all those whom the press so names are no more than one-day butterflies. Yes, this does not always happen, but often.
Let us stop at this and give a definition of the word, which is fixed in the explanatory dictionary - "the subject of love, passion." There is a note in the source that at the moment the concept is outdated. Of course, now they say “girlfriend”. If you choose, then “passion” sounds nobler.
Sentence of language
It is interesting, but from language practice it follows that passions rarely become wives, girls. Thus, the word not only determines the nature of the relationship, but also makes it a diagnosis, sticks the tag “short-lived”. The reader can say that all this is just fantasy. Yes, we don’t have statistics on hand, so we can’t say how much language controls the relationship between a man and a woman. But the story is known about the yacht "Trouble". Perhaps when someone is called “passion”, they (or him) are sentenced, which is not subject to appeal.
Gender issue
After the question of what passion is left behind, I want to find out some nuances, for example, is it possible to apply this definition to a man? And again we turn to language practice, which convinces us that passion is an object of adoration exclusively for the female sex. If we say: “She met Rudolph yesterday, he was once her passion,” then the ear will feel some absurdity in the sentence. It all comes down to conflict: passion is a feminine word, and applying it to a man is somehow awkward. But from the point of view of language and linguistic norms, one can be completely calm, for such an option is permissible.
Ironic shade
Passion must die in order for love to be born, otherwise you should not wait for a lasting relationship. Yes, now everyone still knows what passion is, although journalists use the definition mainly in an ironic way when it comes to another Hollywood star novel. For example, it is rumored that Jack Nicholson in this regard was a guy not a miss. At least it’s written in open sources, and he himself never hid the fact that he is a nature addicted.
It is not worth saying that such novels are not very serious enterprises, especially in an artistic environment where people do not need reinforced concrete support from families and children. They have the luxury of not counting payday money and not putting it off for a rainy day. Yes, there are examples of tragic destinies when people literally devoured this holiday, but who is able to resist the temptation of living light?
The reader already understands what passion means, so he can even do a thought experiment. To present not a girl, but a passion next to the average Russian. Hard, huh? The word does not want to integrate into everyday, everyday, gray space. And rightly so, because it is part of some other world, lighter and more airy, playful, albeit short-lived.