Passion for Thought

I thought I would expand a little more on a thought I had about Passion and the thoughts that moves us. I was talking to a friend the other day about how many of us have this need to share our passions and sometimes it becomes difficult for others to understand us and the desires that move us. This happens especially when we put them into our own words and actions through the things we write and through expressions in artistic outlets. There seems to be this kind of argument over how we express ourselves. When our thoughts and emotions take the lead, there will always be followers as well as critics in our path. It is natural to want to stand up and defend our beliefs no matter what others may say. Although, we must also understand that the things we believe in and the aspirations that drive us dwell the strongest in our own hearts and minds.
We as humans long to let others know how we feel about certain things. We also want others to share in what is important to us. It can be frustrating when others don't understand you or you can't get your ideas across even when they are as plain as the nose on your face.
My friend happened to mention how upset it is when you share your thoughts and ideas and others just don't get it or even worse, they get angry with you. My thought on that was that we all have doors to our consciousness. We filter certain things through experience and through observation into each and every room behind these doors, and we all have the ability to open every door. We choose what doors we leave open and what doors we keep locked, and we all carry these keys at all times. I was telling my friend that when we express ourselves through these different outlets whether it be by feelings, words or artistic abilities we as well hold this kind of master key to everyone's consciousness.
When we express ourselves, others may be uplifted or left angry because you have either opened a door that needed opening and left them feeling alive or you have unlocked a forbidden door to emotions they didn't want out. It gets complicated this way because doors you have opened and accepted within yourself may not be the same for another.
In a way, though, this can be a good thing, for even if they don't listen or understand what you say, you may have opened their eyes, even if only for a second, you may have woke them up and given them thought to open more doors and explore what is deep within themselves. There will be those, the angry ones who may just shut those doors right back up, but the thought will always be there, in the back of their mind, in some room they may have forgotten to lock after all.