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What does it feel like to find your "passion" in life?
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tynamite
tynamite's avatar You have the same have the same compulsion to do your passion (mine is creative), as you do when you do a bad habit (mine is sucking pens). If you go a week without doing any passions (I have 3), you will quickly get bored with life unless you have something else to give you direction in life (a girlfriend, social life, career, etc). I can't speak for everyone (charity workers, doctor), as my passions don't deal with people.

What I can say, is that I love reading and writing. I used to read my all Mum's junk mail aged 3. Nobody understood why I enjoyed reading junk mail, as it's junk, but I love advertising, as I see it as an art form. The things that I do, are an extension of writing, putting my conceptual ideas down into a concrete form.

The act of doing a passion isn't fun. It's a lot of effort you have to put in, and it's very time consuming. While others spend their spare time playing video games or watching tv, you're doing the burden of doing work. What is fun is the end result of having the work done.

Also, having a passion is most likely thankless. You do a lot of work, and are constantly told of how sick, clever, great you are, and seemingly get no reward out of the things that you do. Of course I'm sad about my limited successes, but I also feel compelled to continue the things that I do, because without doing that, I'll sadly have nothing else to do. I wish my life was more interesting, so I could stop doing creative things for a month.

The music industry is full of nepotistic snobs, from the mainstream to the underground. Nobody will help your talent, unless you've got credentials. If someone else made the songs I did, who was more known, and sent them to the same djs I did, they would be featured on compilations and get radio plays. Publishers don't want to publish anything original. They only want the same cardboard cut-out of what worked before. I'm having more limited success with web development. I have to deal with all these conditions, and still carry on. My family think I am insane and obsessed for this. I should have gave up years ago. People say I'm clever and that I'll be rich one day. Due to my opportunist nature, that could be true, but I don't see it. Everyone else does.

Having a passion is not something I find rewarding, as I don't work with people to directly impact on them. Some people say that I'm influential, but I don't think I am. I'm just a normal regular everyday person (I hope), but they say that I'm really clever. I don't think that I'm clever.

Sometimes I wish that I had no passion at all, so I could live a simpler and happier life. Sometimes I wish I had a more interesting life, as for the short time I have it, I'm not compelled to be creative. Sometimes I wish that the people I know would show more interest in the things that I do. Sometimes I wish that the people who say I'm sick to my face, could also have the guts to say so on Facebook as well when I post things. Sometimes I wish that I was successful in life, and that all my work would amount to something. Sometimes I wish that other people would help or collaborate with me , so we could work together.
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