If every person followed their dreams and focused solely on that, then in time we would have professionals in every single field. If every discouraged painter and poet followed their dreams the world would be filled with a lot more beauty.
Not just beauty in the sense of beautiful paintings and poems, but the sense of beautiful people. I'm not talking about beauty in the sense of looks or "the inside" of a person. I'm talking about a type of beauty that comes along very rarely. The most natural, raw type of beauty there is. People being inspired by someone else's passion.
I can't take credit for all of these thoughts. I'm merely regurgitating what the brilliant Alan Watts has already said.
You might think it silly, that every artist can't actually become an artist, but I say why not? What makes a great artist? It's the same thing that makes a great teacher, a great writer, a great mathematician, and a great outdoorsman. It takes practice and dedication. It takes passion. Passion. Passion. Passion.
Find it. If you can't find passion in something then YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG.
Here's a video I encourage every single one of you to watch. Really listen to what he says. Watch it over and over again until you find what it is you would do.
Please, I beg you to find your passion. Hone it and inspire someone with it. Make the world beautiful.
NP: We Are Young- Fun.
I think you're at the wrong school if you can't find passion... Every day I talk to someone who's passionate about something, and I'm amazed at how much the students around me care. And they care about so many different things. Perhaps you should look a little harder; you're not the only passionate student out there.
ReplyDeleteI really think you mistook the post. I wasn't saying that people aren't passionate about things. I recognize that everyone has a passion. I was stressing the fact that not many actually follow up that passion. I see kids all around me who are passionate about things. I also see that most of their majors don't reflect those passions. And I understand having hobbies and such, just wish to see more people dream chasing. That's all. Nowhere in there was I even remotely attempting to be arrogant and say I'm the only passionate student. If that's what you got from it then I am truly sorry. I mustn't have made my point clear enough.
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