You know those people who get passionately, fanatically, obsessively into things? People like doll collectors or Star Wars fans or that lady down the street with creepy red and white gnomes all over her yard? I noticed them too and I was, well, jealous.
See, they had something I didn’t: Passion. Purpose. Pizzaz. I mean, I’d always had interests – cooking, reading, hiking. But I was never fanatical about any one thing, and I wanted to know what fanaticism felt like. I wanted to love diamonds like Elizabeth Taylor, or cooking like Julia Child. But I was not like these women with their over-the-top interests. I was more like Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island. You know. Nice. Temperate. Vanilla..
So I set out to learn what passionate fanatics had that I didn't. Could I find my own source of passion by studying the passions of others?.
The quest took me, among other places, to a pigeon race in the Bronx, storm chasing in Kansas, and to Mayberry Days, an annual celebration of the decades-old Andy Griffith Show where I met a woman who watches up to 40 reruns a week in her effort to retain her title as the Mayberry Trivia Queen.
The three-year journey is chronicled in my book, "Who Are You People?" Part armchair travel, part cultural study, part personal journey, "Who Are You People?" is for readers who want to become more passionate; for readers who are passionate and fear they may be going overboard; and for everyone who’s ever loved a passionate fanatic and asked themselves the simple question “why?â€.
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