Apathy VS Zen

All right, so lately I've been doing some self assements of myself. (Hahaha its funny because its redudant X( ) Anyways I've decided I'm too... something. Be it strongheaded or passionate or opinionated or whatever.
For example I'm always getting mad at customers at Tim Hortons were I work. But I'm really good at being fake so they would never guess at how much I hate them. I could go into examples but screw that.
So.... I thought hey I should care less; you know what I should care less about stupid stuff in general. So I figured "hey apathetic people don't care; I will try strive for apathy!" (ironic I know). Not to mentioned this whole apathy business would take care of some other undesired traits that I possess (I had a hell of a time figuring out the right spelling of that word).
But before I began my quest of apathy I thought I would go out to the people and see what they thought, and by a general question of "Do you think apathy is a trait to be desired?" I was met with many responses. I will leave out names but I'll put some of my favourite repsonces.
"Apathy.... sounds familiar what does that mean again?"
"Hmm... striving for apathy.... Ha! I get it it's a joke right?"
"I guess apathy is a trait to e desired only if the person wants to be apathetic."
"Apathy, ugh! No, apathy is disgusting. Why would anyone ever want to be apathetic?"

So I'm going to end on that note because the last response led to a conversation which led me to rethink this whole apathy business. Our Convo went as followed.
Me: Do you think apathy is a trait to be desired?
Him:Apathy, ugh! No, apathy is disgusting. Why would anyone ever want to be apathetic?
Me: Why do you get so offended by apathy?
Him: Its just such a waste, I mean people should be passionate and strive for a better tomorrow. They shouldn't just shrug their shoulders and keep their head down.
Me: But see, lately I've been thinking; I care to much and I just explode over so much I wish I could just.... stop caring.
Him: Apathy is a bit of an extreme, passion is what has pushed this world out of the dark-ages....
Me: What about Zen. Do you think being Zen is bad?
Him: No, theyre two completely different ideas.
Me: But is it possible to be zen but keep one's passion?
Him: I dont see why not.
Bell: BBZZZZZRRRTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!
Him: Well good luck on you little quest and tell me how it goes.

Now I would like to leave you all with a question. Is it possible to become Zen while attaining one's passion?
Also I would like to note I'm going with a more slang use of the word Zen. And likely misusing the hell out of it, but don't worry smile and be merry.