How do you cultivate your Passion?

If you aren’t confused, then you aren’t keeping up. Majority of us are confused, and that’s good. Doubting and questioning is the beginning of the learning process. It highlights that we are aware something is wrong, and allows us to question our environment – and most importantly ourselves. Life is scary, and day by day we attempt to live out this experience to the best of our ability. Granted we are maximizing our happiness. 

By the time we enter high school, planning out our future and determining the rest of our lives are the objective. Assuming we are given the freedom of choice to pursue any career, it is na?ve to state that students have the freedom to really choose what to do with their life. Lately, I’ve begun feeling as if our lives seem to be planned out for us.

Are we truly free, or are we the product of a collective inter-connecting institution? And are the choices I’m making truly enhance my levels of happiness, or do they do opposite of this aim? What is the end goal of all my life choices? We associate maturity with a sober acceptance of a great many things that we should refuse to accept. Some begin to realize this later in life, and that is they sacrificed their passionate dream job for their secure dream job. Or maybe they realize it midway into their post-secondary years.

The younger generation are the adults of tomorrow, and an outside force imposes on their future and funnels them into a pool of institutionalized workers. It begins with our parents or guardians that are truly looking out for the best of us. What I began realizing was that I felt as like a product of a large power process that structures society. The corporate world influenced me into thinking and behaving in ways which do not represent my own best interests. I’m beneficial to the institution – not myself.

It is strange how we rarely associate work with pleasure. Work is often deemed as a chore, and the number of hours put in returns you a number of dollars. Scared of putting ourselves out in the wild, and leaving our comfort zones, we tend to our post-secondary degrees that offer us a higher chance of becoming employed in the corporate world. 

4 Things I Learned About Passion

1}  Pursuing your passion is not unrealistic....

There are millions of people out there dying to pursue their dream job Many of us are embodied with split personalities, where by day we are working in the corporate world, yet at night we are an artist. Pursue your passion and cultivate it regardless. So what’s going on? Why do some people live the dream while others are shedding blood and tears, waiting for their shot? No one is stopping you from achieving your dream job. Go after it.

2} The narrative fallacy {Falsehood}

Chasing your passion and giving birth to your ideas sounds amazing to fantasize about. We look to others who have sacrificed their lives for their passion, and are drawn to their energy. When we think about applying what we have seen from those who have succeeded into our own lives, we fall short and let our narrative fallacy take over rationale and logical thought. You don’t have to be part of the minority that pities themselves, and complains that someone else is preventing them from having what they want. The more painful the initiation, the more likely we are to want to stick with the program. Passion is a combination of love and hatred.

3} Discovery and sacrifices

Time is not recoverable. You are never truly stuck. Don’t live out the narration of your life you created in your head. You are a week away from changing your life. The only way to fail at life is to abstain and stay inside your comfort zone. What you think may be benefiting you, may very well be the problem itself. There is a catch to discovering your vocation, and it goes against the notion of “You can be whatever you set your heart too.” Finding what you enjoy should always involve being honest with yourself, and discovering where your strengths and weaknesses lay. A good way of doing this is through the process of doing horrible jobs, and going through this process of doing things you hate in order for you to discover what you enjoy.

4} Reap the benefits

The cool way to take this new founded knowledge and apply it to your life is to drop everything currently going on for yourself, and pursue your passion. Realistically, that is the worst thing you could possible do. Life owes you nothing, and the truth of it all is that you are worth about minimum wage right now – if you’re lucky. I would like to believe that if you truly harness a craft that you enjoy, you will have a natural tendency to be greater at it than you would in your secure job. There is a discipline involved in something that is very difficult to do that requires all your concentration, and clears your mind. 

So go out there and do something great. Mark small term goals, that lead up to the long term dream. Don’t be afraid if you can’t map out your journey to the end. Not all stories have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about traveling into the unknown, changing for the better, and taking the moment and making the best of it. Day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

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