This passion is an affective state manifested by an exclusive and durable attachment to an activity. The passion sometimes dominates the personality of the bowhunter and often determines his behavior. One can easily see that state of mind in a deer bowhunter.
Passion effectively clears all other concerns, all other wishes are then moved to the future. The burst of the passion for hunting in the spirit of a bowhunter, breaks its internal balance and orients its activities to satisfy the need.
This passion is characterized by its intensity and its particular vividness. The concentration of attention and energy on deer bowhunting is definitely an oriented behavior.
It can be said without a doubt, that passion is an energy that allows a bowhunter to achieve his ambitions. But how does it work ? Is it an illusion ?
Do not try to reason a bowhunter
It rarely manages to reason an enthusiast, to listen to reason. Passion and reason are then in competition for the spirit of the bowhunter. Usually, it seems that this is not generaly the case, since their collaboration is common.
Indeed the passion regularly relies on a logical reasoning when it comes to for example, determine the location of a treestand.
However it is well known that the passion distorts the reality in the eyes of the avid bowhunter. Passion blinds the bowhunter on the prospects for success. Passion makes him believe that some signs of the presence of a large mature deer are much better than reality.
Obsessed by the image he is so passionnate about, the bowhunter believes he sees it all the time and reacts at the slightest noise. Time is suddenly suspended, the bowhunter has lost any notion of it.
The passion for bowhunting is therefore an overwhelming emotion towards a temporary happiness, but how much real. It is as if the bowhunter, yielding to his passion to satisfy it, would feed it again and again. The avid bowhunter is so damn embraced in a spiral without end, which the result is crowned by total happiness.
I hope I have treated a few aspects of this affliction that affects us all, at this time of the year.
André Nanook Simard
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