Remember back when you were a kid? You would just do things. You never thought to yourself, “What are the relative merits of learning baseball versus football?” You just ran around the playground and played baseball and football. You built sand castles and played tag and asked silly questions and looked for bugs and dug up grass and pretended you were a sewer monster.
But more importantly, what I want to say to these people is this: thatâs the whole point â ânot knowingâ is the whole fucking point. Life is all about not knowing, and then doing something anyway. All of life is like this. All of it. And itâs not going to get any easier just because you found out you love your job cleaning septic tanks or you scored a dream gig writing indie movies.
The common complaint among a lot of these people is that they need to âfind their passion.â
I call bullshit. You already found your passion, youâre just ignoring it. Seriously, youâre awake 16 hours a day, what the fuck do you do with your time? Youâre doing something, obviously. Youâre talking about something. Thereâs some topic or activity or idea that dominates a significant amount of your free time, your conversations, your web browsing, and it dominates them without you consciously pursuing it or looking for it.
Itâs right there in front of you, youâre just avoiding it. For whatever reason, youâre avoiding it. Youâre telling yourself, âOh well, yeah, I love comic books but that doesnât count. You canât make money with comic books.â
Fuck you, have you even tried?
The problem is not a lack of passion for something. The problem is productivity. The problem is perception. The problem is acceptance.
The problem is the, âOh, well thatâs just not a realistic option,â or âMom and Dad would kill me if I tried to do that, they say I should be a doctorâ or âThatâs crazy, you canât buy a BMW with the money you make doing that.â
The problem isnât passion. Itâs never passion.
Itâs priorities.
Source: Screw Finding Your Passion