I apparently hit a nerve over on Facebook when I posted a link to my previous post. I do wish the discussion took place on the blog, but it brought up some things I’d like to explain.
So this is how I see things, speaking of Passion & Love regarding what your life work should be:
- Passion does not equal Purpose.
- Purpose is something entirely different, but can include your passions/loves.
- Passion is not bad, just unsustainable.
- Passion can push you to do incredible things, but so can love
- Passion can grow into love, which is sustainable.
- It’s perfectly OK to have more than one passion OR love.
I’m till working on this whole concept of trying to find ways to turn some of my wild hairs & passions into sustainable “things.”
Not all of them, since I know that the Scanner/Renaissance Soul in me despises being pigeonholed, but I’m discovering a few of my interests are turning into life-long loves.
How does a passion turn into something more sustainable?
Can you craft a good life/business chasing after passions or do people need something deeper than that?
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#1 by Donna on September 13, 2009 - 5:06 am
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I understand what you are saying, but I think that in the context you are discussing “passion” means “love”. When people say “find your passion”, they mean something you have a sustainable interest in, an interest sustainable enough to push you to do what’s necessary to make a living at it.
For a scanner, I think that means understanding the overarching connections between your various interests. For example, my most sustained passion is textiles. This has at times led me to do far more hemstitiching and embroidery than my home-ec class required, to make many of my clothes through high school, to get very excited by an exhibit on underwear through the ages, to do complicated beadwork, to learn to lucet, and on and on and on. Because I know my interests within this overarching area wander about and vary with intensities, I plan my business to include several income streams from vary different aspects of it, everything from producing a variety of types of work, to doing historical reneactments, to acting as an agent for other textile artists, to providing a place for other textile artist to work, to selling supplies and on and on. Does that make sense?
#2 by Alexia on September 18, 2009 - 9:45 pm
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Thanks for the comment, Donna.
Yes it makes sense, and I do get it – the passion thing isn’t lost on me
It’s the word I’m getting hung up on – and I wrote my very last post on the whole thing today…