Search For Passion Is Limiting Your Life

Do you really need to search for your passion?

In this world, you need to get paid to live a satisfying life. Though the word “satisfying” doesn’t fit well, I wasn’t able to get a better word. If you don’t have a source of money, suddenly the world is going to seem to become very cruel to you.

And do you know what’s the one thing that hinders you from earning some money? Passion. A dangerously limiting idea at the heart of everything we believe about success and in general, life. You need to find your passion ASAP, that’s what the narrator of any success story tells you, right?

I wrote the “narrator of a success story” for a reason, have you ever heard that Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook was his passion? Have you ever heard that Bill Gates said that Microsoft was his passion? Have you ever heard that Mukesh Ambani said that the Petroleum industry was his passion, even when his brother, Anil Ambani, was getting the telecom industry?

The answer to all the above questions is obviously no. Their work became their passion when they saw both love and success in that field. No one knows from birth what his/her passion is, neither do they need to continuously struggle to find their passion.

Passion is a feeling, not a plan

And feelings are bound to change, aren’t they? One day you might love to do one thing and the other day another. Despite knowing this fact we judge everything we do by passion as a norm without knowing what it itself is. Passion is the fire that starts coming out while rubbing the two stones and not the process of rubbing the stones.

Passion is the outcome of the work you find success and love in.

You aren’t going to be stuck, you are stuck now

Many people I see are stuck in their life without doing anything because they think that they aren’t meant for that job, and most importantly, I don’t know how they get that feeling without even trying. I mean if their gut feelings are seriously so strong, why haven’t they found their passion yet?

You don’t know what life has planned for you, you can’t see the future, at max, you can see one or maximum of two years into the future and that too in a general sense, not particularly. You don’t create life before living it.

Your passion relies heavily on success, much more than success relying on passion.

Mark Zuckerberg followed Facebook as his passion because it provided him with the success that he needed to drop out of Harvard. If it would have turned out to be an ordinary application, which we can’t imagine as of now, then he might not have dropped out, and none of us would have been saying that Facebook was his passion.

You don’t get passionate about things you don’t succeed in. Even the smallest of your passion comes out of success.

Your experience helps you build your passion, it isn’t something that’s hidden somewhere in this world and waiting for you. You try a ton of different things and see what gives you love and success at the same time, and then you say, “That’s my passion” and not the other way round.

Try to live a meaningful life, search for problems that need to be solved, try to contribute and not just sit and wait for your passion to show up. Let your life surprise you with different challenges.

I hope you found it useful, thanks for reading!!

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