In Pursuit of Passion

We always hear phrases like: “I want to find something that I would be passionate about” or that “passion is the pathway to success”. While these sayings convey common sense there is not much that could be derived from them, and then eventually one could be left with an unanswered question, what does it mean to be passionate about something?

In these week’s blog post I decided to dive into this topic for several reasons, one of which is the question that I had proposed in the first paragraph. I have been asking myself this question for the past three years and I am still looking for a clear answer. However, despite not being able to clearly finalize the answer to this question, I managed to yield some beneficial information which could be useful in further research.

First and foremost, it is crucial to understand that everyone defines passion differently. Someone could define it as being productive and efficient. Someone else could say that being passionate means to be happy about what you are doing. At the very end, the definition of passion turns out to be fairly blurry and then it boils down to the person asking this question to make a final call and decide what it would it mean for him or for her.

My second inference is that by just being passionate about something will not make your life easier. I have read a few articles discussing this matter, and most of the stories covered in those articles did not appear as if people who shared them were served all their accomplishments. It took them a great deal of focus, commitment, and sheer will. Most of them claimed that only because of those hurdles and the amount of work they put into their craft, they can now say that they are truly passionate about their field of choice. Passion is not something that is going to be granted at one's will. From these stories, it appears to me that passion is something that one is being rewarded with after years of dedicated work.

Finally, my third inference is about the time it takes to develop the attribute that one would call “passion”. After all, passion appears to be something that could possibly be cultivated within a person’s mind, and like all of the development processes, it requires time. I have witnessed a few instances when passion was developed with time and was a result of a bad habit. For anonymity reasons I would not disclose the entire story in this post and will jump right to the conclusion that I have come to after a thorough analysis. It could take a while before one would develop that attribute, of so-called, “passion”. The most peculiar point is that bad habits could be very powerful catalysts of the development process. That is why it is crucial to always keep pushing and never stop developing as an individual.

I truly hope that someone would find my observations and inferences valuable, and would be willing to incorporate them into their own research.

A.G:)