Passion

There are several applicable themes to Into the Storm written by Reed Timmer. Although there are many, the most evident and visible theme explained by Timmer is passion. The circumstances of the setting and his explanations about himself are what make this theme very clear. One aspect of the beginning of the book I have to keep in mind is that he is still in college. He is attending an enormous university known for intense partying and school spirit. Along with this, Reed belonged to a fraternity and lived in the house for a considerable amount of time. While living in these living conditions he went on many storm chases and took part in much internship all around the area for things like local news stations, weather observatories and global companies through the internet. Needless to say, he was a busy guy, however, there is more evidence about towards making this passion a true part of his lifestyle. Reed tells us that he would often skip out on activities with his friends in order to be able to go do things such as storm chase, study unnecessary topics still pertaining to meteorology, or even to first hand gather and document weather data for his own personal use. This portion of the book taught me a lot about Reed Timmer.

The theme of passion has came up in every book that I have read this year besides the ones involving local history. I easily connect to books involving passion because I have a passion for passion. I absolutely love when people follow their passion, I believe a huge part of true success is following a passion. I believe people have many passions. Some may find that they have true passion, but others like myself have passionate feelings toward a lot of ideas, activities or subjects. I feel like I have a lot of passions for just one guy. Some are stereotypical to almost all guys while others are a little obscure. This I feel is the case with everybody, though many I feel never find their obscure passions. Whether they just haven't explored enough to locate them or they have already been located and he/she doesn't want to go out on a limb to peruse or expose the passion we all have many things we are passionate about.