Find your passion, change your life
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
-Franz Kafka
There is a fine line between feeling passion and being passionate for something. One may feel passion towards many things, but being passionate for something is the missing link we’ve all been searching for. Passion is motivating and unmistakable; it brings back to life what has been lying inert. It gives the pale back its color and touches everything with purpose. Passion is what distinguishes the ordinary from the extraordinary; it is the difference between the forgotten and the remembered.
We were made to be original, and are all gifted with unique purposes and passions. We were not made to be dull and colorless. But for fear of not fitting in, or worse yet–standing out, many have watered themselves down to an insipid cup of tea. Instead of being pieces of art, they are, like chameleans, trying to blend into a washed out backdrop. And this keeps many people from finding their true passion.
I believe that every individual has a unique passion waiting to be discovered.
It could be that special “thing” that just lights fireworks in your stomach, or maybe you don’t feel fireworks, maybe you just feel alive. Or maybe you are drawn without explanation to something. When I first discovered my passion for music, it felt like someone had lit a fire inside my chest, and I remember feeling like I might actually explode. At first I didn’t realize what it was, but as it happened again and again, I began to think, “Maybe…this is what being passionate for something feels like.”
Self discovery is a process, and so is finding the thing you are passionate about. But in finding it, you open yourself to a new and colorful world; one in which you suddenly become elevated, enriched, and best of all: you become alive–you are living!
~Olivia x
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