Passion in Life

One day I go to a restaurant,
I order for an icecream,
I get pastries on my table.
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I tell the restaurateur,
'Thats not what I ordered'.
I get no reply.
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I then ask him frustrated,
'Why don't I get my ice cream?'
I get no reply; he just stares,
At the pastries, reminding me of what i got.
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I look at the pastries
I eat it out of no choice,
As i am hungry.
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I keep going back, as i couldn't afford other choices and since 'one has to move on'
With time, I get used to my pastries.
Days pass, on a day when i wait for the same.
I get served icecreams instead!
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I didn't want it then,
I am happy with my pastries.
I am at a state of shock and anger.
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I stare at the restaurateur.
He looks back and reminds me of my past order.
I tell him, 'I now want my pastries'
He tells me,'But these icecreams were made for you'
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I stay angry but remain confused,
He understands and tells me 'I know you loved the pastries,'
'But now its time for you to enjoy the icecreams, you craved for the same'.
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The pastries were for your hunger
And the icecreams for your passion.
I say 'Hunger stays, passion fades'
He says 'you don't know yet,'
'When passion stays it changes to hunger'
'To satiate your hunger, i fed you with what you wanted.'
'Your innerself craved for your passion'
'Your outerself was slaved to your complacence'
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Success might come late in what one wants passionately.
One should never loose his passion for failure or complacence, but for purpose yes.
With time, you will start loving to do what you do as you get conditioned to it.
But thats not what you really set out to do!
So enjoy the present but wait and prepare yourself for a future that you wanted in the past.
Keep the passion alive and let the fire within burn and not rage itself.
When it burns,it lasts longer; when it rages,it destroys you.
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Stay hungry with your passions in mind, but keep living by filling your heart with all joys of your present.
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-Santosh Gopi Nair
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Afterword:

restaurant -> life
restaurateur -> fate/luck/vidhi/time/ whatever people call this compulsive phenomena thats experienced in life, my logical mind hates refering to it, but my compulsive unexpectant lifestyle leaves me with no choice but accept it as a reality.
hunger -> need to move on and experience life further, its a purpose and not a passion.
innerself -> subconscious
outerself -> conscious
happiness of routine (getting served pastries regularly) -> complacence in life (everyone experiences this variedly at different stages of their life).
disgust at getting icecreams -> Lack of passion/ fire within that was once present!
reason for late serve of icecreams -> man wishes, time decides.-. man explores,time measures.-.man proposes,time disposes.-.(But when) man wants, time obeys! (Stay passionate!)