Passion

       They always say do what you like and you’ll never work a single day of your life. As years go by I think this becomes less convincing to me than it was before. I am not saying that there is no truth in this saying at all, but I think it’s just too simple to take this and apply it to your life. For one, I definitely think that doing something that you love is entirely different from making a living out of something you love. I could tell from my experience that I have put the saying to test. I love to draw, and for so many years, I draw what I want to draw and do it well. I get lots of compliments from it but when I start to work on getting paid for drawing, suddenly it wasn’t so interesting anymore. Expectations started building up and you have to do what people want and that defeated the purpose why I loved drawing in the first place. My wife loved making up and she is so good at it too, but she soon found out she loves putting on make up for herself and did not enjoy the process of making up for others.

 

                Having a passion for something (whether or not for work) has very much to do with how much time you spend on something and how much you are willing to sacrifice for it. Having passion for something doesn’t mean that you have to be very good at something, it could very well be something that you enjoy doing. To like what you make for a living doesn’t always start with something that you like to do, I guess that’s the misconception that everyone has about making a living out of something you love doing. It takes time and effort to love something, let alone a process that is stressful, high pressure, and performance driven. I believe it is not easy to reach a level where you can love something where you make a living out of, but it takes alot of hardwork. That being said, one should not give up so easily when reaching a stumbling block – Afterall, like marriage, it takes alot of time and work to create, grow and nurture the relationship for it to last a lifetime.