I have a passion fruit growing in my garden. It has flowered a lot over the time I have had it. But it has never set – there has been no fruit. That is until today. But the temperature is far too low for the vine to have fruit, although it is supposed to be a winter fruit.
Mind you – we have only had two really cold days this winter that would have affected the plant.
I’ve seen a lot of meal photos appearing on Facebook recently – I guess because food is a passion for many people (see what I did there). Others are posting how many steps they walked or miles they have run.
It struck me that a lot of social media is about our passions. Do we ever initiate posts about other people’s passions? You know the party guest that just talks about me me me that we all want to ignore. Social media pushes us in to being that kind of guest. If you wanted to say “john, how are your passion fruit growing?” you would hide it in a personal message, you would not make a public post of it.
Having spent the last year on social media I wonder if we will all be boring pay guests when we get back together?