The Power is Where your Passion is.
What do you love to do? I ask this, because I see so many people who seem to have lost sight of what they love, and settled for sitting in front of a screen, playing mindless game, reading mindless posts and waiting for something to come along and give some light to the joyless monotony of their lives.
Dead while breathing, lost while knowing where they are, something has definitely left the building.
Maybe their dreams, their desires, or their determination.
I get it, I really do. Life can be brutal, and sometimes you just want to sit in the quiet of your own soul, and try to find a small island of peace in a world of chaos and confusion.
There’s nothing wrong with taking a moment here or there, but when you start to fall into the same habits, where nothing changes, and nothing excites you, then you’re just getting busy dying…
Which is a terrible way to live.
One of my favorite quotes about life actually comes from a guy who I feel sorry for, but who lived with an incredible passion. An orphan, adopted into a family, blessed by genius and yet plagued by demons, Steve Jobs was a man who lived his whole life trying to quiet the terrible feelings of being abandoned, unloved and unwanted.
But out of his pain, out of his suffering and out of his despair came this simple yet profound truth.
You’ve got to find what you love.
Because at some point in your future, you’re probably going to have some time on your hands to look back and try to figure out what you spent your time on. If someone were to ask you on your deathbed what you did with your life, what do you want to be able to tell them? I can’t think of a better answer than this….
I tried my best, to do what I loved, and it made all the difference.
Because once you find what it is that you truly love, be it art, or music, or helping people, or doing something crazy that just lights up your soul, that’s where the purpose of your life is, and that’s where your energy will come from.
If you’ve ever pursued a goal, become obsessed by it and focused on it to a level where everything else just melts away, then you know that limitless energy and intensity that comes in the pursuit of that thing that makes your heart sing like nothing else.
And that’s when your soul is on fire, and the whole world changes forever.
Today, as you arise, or whenever you are reading this, if you didn’t wake up with a dream for the day, without something to give light to your soul, then I beg you to change something in your life, so that you have something in your world to look forward to and to live for. Each day is a precious gift, each life an incredible blessing that we take far too much for granted.
Whatever your reason, even if it’s just the hope of something better to come, I want you to live that truth just as hard as you can.
Because passion is the key to a life well lived.
Dr. Alan Barnes
@maddrbmusings