Passion in Life

What is passion?
Activities which we are excited to do or we love to do are known as Passion in our life. Every individual should have some passion or the other. She can be a housewife, or an employee or a professional or a student. Today’s world is full of stress. Passion is one of the things which keeps us lively and happy. Turning your passions into a career can lead to more success. Passion is something that we enjoy doing even when things are tough. Eg : Travelling, cooking, painting etc are some of the examples of passion.

Finding our passions
I have read this quote many times: “Follow your passions”. Before following our passion we really need to find what our passion is. Being a teacher by profession, and a food junkie. I always thought that being with kids and visiting new restaurants made me the most happy. But one day when someone approached me to write articles for our community magazine. After writing a few articles, for our magazines. I started getting appreciation from people all around. I realised that writing is my passion. This is the only thing which I love to do and rest other things I only liked to do. Writing is my true passion. Many times finding your true passion can be confusing. There are many things which we love to do but don’t know what our true passion is. I always love to paint. I felt painting is my passion but after getting involved professionally in it. I realised it’s just my hobby and not my passion. These are some of the points which have helped us in finding our passion.

• 1.Knowing your strength.
• 2.Finding out topics which we love to talk about.
• 3.Finding out where we like to spend our time and money

Difference between passion and hobby
Hobby is an activity which we like to do. It is done in our free time and for fun. While passion is something which we can do 24/7. Eg :- Reading books, Painting, Travelling new places and trying new food varieties. All are my hobbies. While writing which I can do 24/7. I can write even after a hectic day schedule. But after a hectic day schedule I would not like to read books or do painting after a hectic day. Continuous writing doesn’t make me tired. But continuous travelling, reading makes me tired. Many people feel hobbies and passions are the same. Hobbies and passion are two different things and their role in our life is also totally different.

Turning our passions into career
Success and happiness both were away from me till I did not think of turning my passion into a career. Being passionate about something has helped me a lot to achieve success in my life. We are not always passionate about a particular activity. Sometimes we are passionate about earning money, work, friends and family. From teaching to online selling to affiliate marketing to conducting exhibitions. I tried many options and I have earned money also. But after a point of time I started losing interest which in turn reduced my income also. Then one day I started writing blogs online. I started to make income during these blogs. It has been almost a year and day by day my interest in writing these blogs is increasing. I am always working on how I can make blogs more interesting to read for people. I am always into learning various methods through which I can grow visitors on my blogs. Making my blogs more famous. Turning passion into a career not only helps us earn success. But stress level and exhaustion related to work is also reduced. I have started loving my work and my life too.

Role of passion in life
Passionate people are always ambitious. Passion helps us to explore things, achieve new heights in our life. My Passion has helped me keep happy and excited. It is due to passion that I have got a purpose in my life. Passion helps in defining our goals and ambitions. Dreams may change or be modified with time. Passion always remains the same. As said by Steve Jobs “To do great work you have to do what you love”. “People with passion can change the world. Passion is not only something but it is everything in our life. So it is very necessary that we find our passion and follow it in our life.

How passion helps us in difficult times?
Passion is one thing which keeps us going. Being a career oriented woman. I was a person who never enjoyed cooking,or was not interested in household activities. I was constantly nagged, finding faults in myself. This all affected me so much that I felt I was good for nothing, I also started losing my confidence. There came a phase where I had stopped writing also. I had doubts in everything I did. After becoming a mother, a lot of people questioned my parenting methods. I was so depressed that I needed counselling sessions. My counsellor suggested to me that I should start writing only two lines. I started writing only quotes, then short poems, and then blogs. After a few months I started my own blog. I got good responses from my blogs. But at the same time my blogs have encouraged me each and every day. At the same time it has improved my mental health. I have realised my capabilities and gained my confidence back. Even today, however busy I am. I make an effort to follow my passion.

Conclusion
Passion is a great support to happiness. Many times we may feel that some passions are greater than others. Like charity, helping others. But everyone’s passion is unique in itself. I believe for a happy and interesting life it is necessary to keep our passion alive. Even if we don’t make it our career but in some or the other way. We should keep it following.

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~Shreya Shah~

I am Shreya Shah, living in Mumbai and a mother. I love to write, try different cuisines and travel. I express my thoughts, ideas and feelings through my writing. I believe everyone is different in this world and so is their ideology. We should accept everyone the way they are. Since everyone is unique in their own way, never judge anyone.

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