English Version | Editor's Letter: The Passion Issue, February 2025

04 Feb 2025
By Sofia Lucas

“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.” - Charles Bukowski

Passion.

It's fire, flame, heat, and at the same time, butterflies in the stomach.

A madness that emerges without warning, and that makes us feel saner than ever, even if it throws reason out the window.

It is the insatiable desire, the hunger for something eternal, even knowing that “forever” is a dream. It's chasing your dream, even if you don't know where it takes you.

It is a dimension without time or distance.

The strength that overcomes any obstacle, that takes us to exhaustion, without ever feeling tired.

It is a separate enigma, which seduces us, draws us in and makes us always want more.

Passion is walking a tightrope, without a net... a leap of faith.

Promises the sky even if it delivers the ground.

It is necessary, the purest truth, even if it involves all the senses.

It is blind, despite making us see the unimaginable.

A work of art, as beautiful as it is grotesque, like the salt of tears from laughter and crying.

The desire that consumes and at the same time owes us.

The impatient patience, the soundless scream.

Chaos that seems like divine order.

The greatest of contradictions, everything that cannot be explained.

The meaningless feeling that gives true meaning to life.

Because passion is the essence that makes everything possible.

In romance or friendship, in art, in fashion, in any personal project, in everyday life, passion is the foundation that keeps everything alive, vibrant and true, the spark of madness that transforms ordinary life into something absolutely extraordinary.