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Once a week I ask the same bleary-eyed question: “What about Wednesday?” It’s my day to post whatever the hell I feel like, with no regard to fashion, eco-consciousness or, occasionally, even coherent thoughts.
With every conversation it becomes more clear: the answer to every moral connundrum, every major life choice, is passion.
The moment I first chose to follow my passions – to ignore all of that other stuff I was “supposed” to do – my entire world opened up with new possibilities. I stopped worrying about whether I should write and, instead, just started writing: on this website, on The Demoiselles, on the bus coming home from work. I started playing with food, with coffee, with clothing, with my ideas for creative expression and fitness. I began taking chances; I began flirting with what seemed to be an inevitable disaster.
Disaster never came, though. Instead, things began to oddly fall into place:
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When Miss Elle offered me a place at The Demoiselles, I was suddenly able to combine my passion for writing with my fight against beauty standards and my passion for fashion.
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When I began to take chances with cooking, a friend offered to help me plant some fresh foods in my garden…and my landlord came over and mowed the day before I’d intended to do it. Tons of food blogs came out of the woodwork, too – all with inspiring stories and recipes for me to try!
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When I began to focus on my passion for my home life, instead of trudging through work I didn’t care about, the work was suddenly easier to do…and my home life ran more smoothly.
In the past few months, it has all begun to make sense. All of this stuff – money, time, stress – is just energy floating out there, waiting to be grasped. When we concentrate on what we love, on our passions, that energy is so focused that it’s bound to attract more of the same. It’s bound to grow.
The more real I get, and the more I am honest about what I love and what I strive for, the more that I find people like me that are happy to help facilitate each others’ passions. Not just PR hoarders looking for a handout or money-grubbers trying to live off of ad revenue, but real people, writing real posts about topics they really care about. They’re doing it because they’re passionate about it - the money is merely icing on the cake - and when they see that passion in someone else they’re all about a retweet, pingback, or whatever other internet recognition they can give.
What is your passion? Are you living it? If you aren’t, what are you doing to work towards it?
CHEERS!!! My goals are to live with passion and not sweat the small stuff (and it’s pretty much all small stuff!)
Totally inspiring!
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What an inspiring post! I’ve had something similar happened, before I started blogging again (I’ve had a blog off and on for, gods, six years now? seven?) I had forgotten how much I just love writing. It’s so nice to have an outlet and I’m feeling so inspired lately, in blogging and in fashion (I love sewing to and have a backlog of projects – but I have a feeling they’ll get put on hold ’til after the move!). It is so nice to just do what you WANT to do in your heart of hearts and not worry about it!
Michelle’s last blog post..Cute Comfortable Shoes Series: Dansko
I finally got around to reading this post…how eerie it is the same topic as my tweet from earlier. I am currently in the midst of rediscovering my passions. Coaching and playing sports are my number one passion. Somehow I have been away from them for over 2 years now and I didn’t realize how empty I felt until I applied for some positions last week and felt a spark within me. I have plenty of time right now to devote to kicking around the soccer ball, going for runs with friends, riding my bike, learning tennis, watching my little sister’s softball games…I haven’t been this happy in a long time. I feel really alive and excited when I wake up every morning.
I talked to a teacher from high school and we discussed how everyone always thought I would become a teacher/coach. My college soccer coach was beyond enthused when I said I wanted to get back into it. While I temporarily lost site of what I truly loved and enjoyed (and had a lot of natural talent at), other people hadn’t. It has been extremely comforting to have their support and see the confidence they have in me when I sometimes struggle to find the confidence in myself.
My second passion was always writing. I don’t do much of that anymore but I am trying to get back into it. I have kept up various personal blogs for the last 7 years but never did any kind of substantial writing in them. In college I enjoyed seeing my name in print and having people stop me to discuss my articles from the school paper. I may get back into it, but it may just come as I focus on other things.
I am learning to not freak out about these societal ideas that “I must get a good paying job”. My new mantra I have been repeating in my head is, “Do what you love, do what you love, do what you love”. I need to stop trying to please everyone else and simply go for what I feel is right in my heart.
What About Wednesday: It’s all about passion: http://bit.ly/sgo3o
Please comment – http://bit.ly/sgo3o – and tell me about your passion. I really do want to know.
What About Wednesday? http://tinyurl.com/o4to8n
My passion (I don’t really like that word. It is being so overused and abused) if cooking for people I love. I fought against it for many years, not wanting to be another woman stuck at home and in the kitchen. I have 2 degrees, i had a career, I made good money… but I’m happeist now – being at home, being stuck in the kitchen. trying to make a career out of it
(by the way, this white on black is killing my eyes…)
Nurit – 1 family. friendly. food.’s last blog post..Cooking from the hip
It may not be Wednesday anymore, but I still do want to know about your passions. http://tinyurl.com/o4to8n Some amazing comments so far!
I think you probably already know that I love my thread, but I have a huge list of passions that will wait until my all encompassing family needs me a bit less. For now, they are my true reason.
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I still haven’t heard about many of ur passions. @choosespun @TotusMel @MissElle @alixrose @clutch_22, where r u? http://tinyurl.com/o4to8n
I find it to be very symbolic that I’ve gotten to read this post today- almost a week after you’ve posted it.
While in undergrad, I chose to study my passion and loved every moment of it. However, upon entering the workforce, I left that passion to pursue a field that was much more lucrative and offered more room for growth, trying to convince myself that I would learn to love it. I felt that if I pursued the more lucrative career & made others in my life happy, I too would start feeling happy about it.
I could only fool myself for so long before I realized that I would rather love every day of my life. I would rather commit to something I feel complete zeal and excitement for & get paid less than make so much money doing something I hate. I finally came to the realization that my current field may not be for me this past weekend…and only today did I realize the last time I was genuinely happy with my path, was when I was dedicating time to my true passion.
I can’t agree more with you. Life is about pursuing the things that make you happiest. I truly believe that when you exude positive energy and commit yourself to your passion, you’ll succeed in ways you never imagined.
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