the illusion of passion

as the new years dawns upon us , its a start to another year ... resolutions are made , people make up their wants and do and donts list. goals are set, 'things' are need to be bought and in between all this no one ever takes a resolution that they are going to live life ! LIVE it and not succumb to the pressures of soceity. people are comfortable with an excuse , but this is what i want to do .. i want to earn money , you want to become a stupid saint and one should do what one wants right ? but then are we born with these wants , this passion .. no one is ever ! it is bred into us as we grow , society tells us over and over again that playing cricket and making it to the national team is the greatest career ever ... its bred by those corporates who dole out lakhs for every teeny weeny advertisement which never makes sense , its bred into the person by his poor parents who sit in a hut and watch with open mouths at the 'material things' money buys. its bred into the person by friends , relatives every goddamn person in society. and then this suddenly becomes the passion , the true calling , the thing which a person can forget everything else. two hundred years before no one had a passion for cricket so where did this true calling suddenly erupt from. i see this as no passion or true calling but just bending to the pressures of modern soceity. we do things , we want things as defined by others ... no one has an individuality of his own and maybe its not possible ! and then every person wonders why is he not happy ?!
take it with a pinch of salt , whatever one does or does not .. whatever happens or does not is just not the end of the world. and live life , experience nature and experience ones body. its not that this should not be done, its not that one should give up everything in life since it does not mean anything .. but we should all just realize it should not override everything else in life. we are part of the system , we are part of society and this is bound to happen .. but who gives me the right to decide if its right or wrong . how can i say if the other person is living a hollow life or leading the most fulfilling part of his life ! how can i even judge that passion is an illusion , maybe there is this passion that every person should look for .. but what if its built on false foundations and false premises ? and we see it everyday around ourselves. lies , hope , promises , deception , money are the key for the key to many of a persons actions. the joy and sense of fulfillment that comes out of living life is lost or is it so ? why is money suddenly so important ... was it so when the sages wrote the vedas , when its a widely accepted fact that life in those times where of a much higher level. and can suddenly one say life is an illusion itself , but then if its so what difference does it make to have a passion or not .. someone can have , somone can be a cricketer , someone can find his true calling .. at the end everything might be an illusion itself :P !