find my passion, and follow it passionately

I think that my passion is somewhere in the artistic side. I’m starting to get pretty confident that something big in my future will have to do with photography or art, because I’m so passionate about it (even if I’m quite shy, also.)

The problem is that I’ve found my passion, I just don’t know how to do it passionately. I
m not taking any art classes in High School next year, although I am on yearbook crew, so I think I’ll be able to practice with the cameras and things. Yet I want to do something dramatic, something emotional and stirring and something important. I don’t want to settle for pictures of the flowers and the trees and the posing students.

I think doing something passionately is loving what you’re doing no matter the circumstances, waking up in the morning and just being ready to do whatever it is you’re passionate about. And I really think I’ve found my passion.

Everyone’s passion is different, but in my mind it should come effortlessly. Passion isn’t something you can search for and find, it’s found through inner wisdom and life experience.

Though in the “follow your bliss, the money will follow” paradigm they don’t say when it will follow or how much it will be.

Yet there always is enough, if sometimes just barely and too often at the last minute. And would I do something else for a larger, regular pay-check? Not unless I also loved it passionately… otherwise, nyet.

These days I think great gift or talent is not so much being good at something as knowing you want to do it, and therefore giving enough time and focus to it that you get good at it, through constant repetition, overcoming fear and the muse trusting you to keep your word…

Where do I begin? I have so many things I would honestly want to do but the problem is which to be passionate about.

I definitely have to find my true mission and what it is I really want to do.

So tell me people, how do you know your passion?

I am always interested in improving my teaching skills. The one common feature of good teachers is that they’re passionate about their subject. So, I want to hold onto that passion, and convey it in the classroom and in the other work that I do. I want to care madly, deeply, passionately about doing a good job.

You know I’ve been confronted by people, especially on the net, with the question, “what do you like to do….what is your passion?” You know the crazy thing is, I have things that I enjoy…things that I like to do….but a passion…something that calls out to me and I can’t help but to do…nope…don’t have one of them and furthermore….can’t figure out if I ever had one of them. I am admire those who do have a passion and follow through….i want to have that kind of passion….so wish me luck…maybe if I get rid of allllllllllll this baggage I have before this….then I can work on this.