Choose life! in order that you may live...

Do you suppose sometimes it's easier to live with apathy than with passion? I often wonder that, as it seems so often that we choose to live this way... I recognize living with passion every moment of every day gets pretty exhausting after a while, but it saddens me to think that we mainly choose to live in mediocre apathy most of the time... that we choose to stuff ourselves with banalities and celebrity (it's weird how I always catch up on my People reading and American Idol updates when I head outland) and ignore the greater issues at hand... especially when Jesus asks us to Think Bigger and Love Greater...