passion
Passion:
1. A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger.
2. Ardent love
3. Boundless enthusiasm
Passion...what a word. I've heard this word so much the past few days that i've really started to take it for granted.
my mindset when this topic has been brought up in my most recent classes has been something like the following:
"Passion...yada yada yada, follow your heart blah blah blah...i get it, lets move on to the reason i'm sitting here"
Well why i am sitting there? I realized today it should be because of passion, an ardent love for something. It then began to hit me, What was i doing? i dont care enough about the many miniscule things that go into calculating our economy's GDP to make a career out of it. I couldnt care less about finance and Wall Street.Yes, i understand that these things are vital to our nations success and in some way effect everyones life but i was just not born to be a part of this world directly. I dont want to be a business major!
I had gotten so tied up in what other people considered a "successful" life to be and how i measured up. These days success is usually measured by the following:
a) making a 6 figure salary or more
b) having a huge nice house
c) having a brand name luxury car
you get the picture.I had gone off and majored in something that i have no passion or drive for just so i could reap in the profit and others could thensee my outward success. That thought is heartbreaking. Sure i would be praised by others for my monetary success and possibly even be envied by would i truly be happy? Would i have a inner deep passionate heart that was overflowing with interest,compassion, and love for what i did and how i lived my life? most likely not.
I began to think about my own term of success and what that would mean for me. If i can i have a crazy intense passion for something,chase it with all of my heart and soul and do it well and also live a life where other people are better because of me and the positive impact i have had on their lives then i'll consider my life to have been successful.
so to kind of wrap all of this, i dont know what i for sure want to do with my life but i do know that...
a) i DO NOT want to be a business major
b) whatever i do end up doing i will be passionate and love crazy about
life is good.