Reconciling Passion and Balance

How do those who are deeply passionate about theirwhat they do can relate to this definition of passion
work balance their lives? I have written a few articles-to be passionate about something is to be
on the topic of balance and could list several waysconsumed and driven by it. Where in this experience
“to balance your life” but that doesis the concept of balance? Passion might compel you
not seem to answer the deeper question that isto write at 3am in the morning and to work for days
being asked. This question I suspect is much morewithout showering, with little sleep, and with barely
complicated than the basics of work/life balance.eating. This is not balance and this is not the
I had someone say to me once that part of the rootwork-alcoholism of the typical American that might
meaning of the word passion is to suffer. I suspectbe remedied by the standard concept of balance.
that those people who are truly passionate about