My god, this is one of those topics that has so many sides to it it's insane! There's the "Work is meant to suck" side, the "Don't do what you're passionate about as a job" side and the "the best work is with a passion of yours" side too.
But how do we know what is a passion of ours and what ends up being work for us??
*This is inspired by a conversation I had with my best friend, and many experiences of mine*
Me personally, there's only 3 things that I am passionate about - Music, Dance and Video.
Music:
Music is something that has been with me since I was young, such as singing lessons and talent shows for my singing, and music production and learning more about audio since being at University. Right now I am learning not just about the science behind audio and how it can be applied to music, but also how to produce music to the best quality possible.
Because I grew up around music it was always something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life; I can't be in a job that requires me to wear a suit, to carry a briefcase, or to have a normal 9-5 working hours 5 days a week...I'm an expressive dude and I have to feel free in whatever it is I choose to do for my work. For me to carry on with music into my 20s, 30s or even older will be a godsend to me, cause I love music!
Dance:
Dancing has actually given me a new backbone to who I am; I can honestly say that if it wasn't for B-Boying I wouldn't be the person that I am today. The dance has given me the confidence to do whatever I want in life! In this dance you get to express yourself in whatever way you want, if you are being true to yourself that is, which is perfect for me! When I dance with my crew, when I break in clubs and at events, I feel elated - there's actually not many words that can actually describe how I feel when I dance.
Since this is a vital element of my life it's important I keep it up, but this is because I have been dancing without expecting it to be my main source of income; if I made my dancing a job then I may not enjoy dancing as much. This is one of the problems I see with going to dance schools, but that's just a problem I see - I do wish those that do go to dance schools the best of luck!!
Video:
This has been something that I have just recently began to love, obviously it boils down to it being a creative outlet - like my dancing. Obviously I started to get involved from filming the Scotland breakin' scene *REFER TO BLOG ABOUT VIDEO-ING* and from there I got started on filming club nights and such.
To be totally honest, this is just one of those things that I want to be really good at for personal gain...if I was to do this for my work I'd actually hate it. I couldn't film for work, unless it's of the breaking scene - anything else I'd lose the love for video.
And then you get people that don't even have a passion in their life, also those who don't do all the things they love in life. They go into a job that they hate that has nothing to do with what they really love to do, now what's the point in that? People are too scared of loving life when it comes to surviving and making money; there's too many people that have literally sold their souls to the devil so they can make more money...but those people complain too much about how their work is so bad.
You'll know when you can use a passion of yours as work when you see everything as being a fun and enjoyable and loving experience. If you lose any one of those 3 criteria along the way then that passion is no longer a passion, instead it becomes a job that you have lost love for.
If people were more honest with themselves with what they really wanted to do, we'd have less people complaining and more people loving life...but it's money that is bringing out the evil in people, and that's when life starts to get shit for people.
The reason why we have so much fun doing something that we find passionate is the emotions it brings out in us; if we transcend those emotions into our everyday activities then everything starts to seem so much happier and better...because everything just seems like so much fun and we can never be sad from it.
If you are passionate about something in your life, do the best you can to excel in that field.
*Signing Out*
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