Do you remember being a little kid and being asked, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" I would think of all the amazing things I wanted to be: an artist, a fire fighter, a spy, an artist with a day job as a firefighter who moonlighted as a spy and then got elected president - yeah, I had big goals. Well the thing is - here we are. We're almost grown up at this point... isn't that scary to think about? Are you really on your way to being who you wanted to be when you were a little kid? I mean, I'm no fire fighter, I stopped doing art in middle school and I do not know if the FBI hires spies that are 5-feet tall and weigh less than 100 pounds - but I'm pursuing something that I'm really passionate about.
Passion is such a hard thing to pin point. It is the thing that wakes you up in the morning, the thing that keeps you up at night trying to perfect a skill, the thing that your family gets to hear about every single night at the dinner table. It makes you forget about heartbreak, or injuries, or just the things that really bother you. I think that every single person out there has a passion, but some people become dispassionate. Whether it's because something happened to what they loved or they just lost interest.
Why shouldn't you run in the direction of the things that make your life worth living? Why should you trudge along in some job that makes you money but doesn't make you happy? You'll find that some of the most successful people in the world are the ones that chased their dreams and honed in on their passions. So why can't that be you?
We all know people who have put it all on the line for their passions and the things that they love - dispassionate people will say that what they're doing is dumb or that it will never work out. But truly, dream chasers would rather be poor and doing what they love any day over doing something that they don't. So why would you put someone down for being happy doing what they're doing?
Remember that little kid inside of you - maybe that kid has different dreams from the one that you have now, but they aspire to be something, to do something. Listen to that kid's voice over the voices of the dispassionate or the nonbelievers. Believe that if you put your heart and soul into what you love, good things will happen. You don't want to look back on your life and wonder why you chose the easy route over the one that you really wanted to take - just because it was a little bit bumpier.
