Hi Brian,
Thank you very much for your consideration. TO me, your question aming at challenging my thoughts shows your deep interest in my concern. I feel really thankful for that. Your question is what i expected when i finished writing my post becasue i felt that my ideas were not made clear enough.
Firstly, i want to express what i really think about my passion. the only thing i love to do is to work with people, observe their activities and that is not just about observing the way people work but about what really motivates them to do that, to behave and live in their certain way, i.e their daily psychology. And all of these reasons lead to me to HR which allows me to sit down, talk and study about employees' problem, goal and ability. But please do not make a mistake here. I do not primarily aim at helping people, which on my personal view, is stated as " a goal". I really love studying about myself and others' psychology and the way they live. the key term here is that the intrinsic value of the action (observing people and talking about them) gives me happiness. In other words, the action itself, in its substance, is the msot important thing to me, that is what i defined passion. And about the goal, if i want to do all of those actions to help others and being successful to help others is my main objective, i would call it "a goal". DId i make it clear ? i just feel that i cannot express fully my idea about this, perhaps becaue of my poor ability in communicating in ENglish. I will try further in this way. In my personal view, a goal is of outside the action and the happiness or disappointedment of the doer base on the result of that action. For example, i have a goal that i would be able to start up a non profit business in an african country to help small retailers there, and so that is why i desperately need skills and knowledge supplied by a MBA program. And about passion, frankly, i have to say that in term of concerning about my passion, i just do things because of myself, rather than to care about others. Its really to hard to adress this issue becaue in most of case, after reading these, others would think of me as a "selfish" guy. It maybe true because as i observe, this world is really a mess up because everyone always tries to help others due to their own understanding and due to what they think is best. This is only my personal opinion, but this should be another problem outside our topic.
About your question, i hope that i can make it clear. when i think about my essay, i am really confused because an almost certain possibility is that the schools would judge me as a selfish person who would do nothing beneficial to the society. BUt i just do not want to pretend to be a budda in my essay. And who know, if people do things jsut because of their pure and intrinsic happiness, their actions could lead to an unexpected benifit for others. i know, this seems to be a paradox, but as i observe, it is always true, honestly.
Hope to hear your responses soon.