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What is your passion in life?

The Bass guitar and Double bass.

That is the ONLY thing I can FULLY put my mind and spirit into. God I fucking love it.
Brb gonna jam.
 
GoddessLSD-XTC said:
I don't have much passion or enthusiasm for anything anymore, life is a BIG disillusion.
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Yeah i'd probably say im about there too.. feels strange sometimes, like im in a circus and everyone is playing there part perfectly, and im just watching it all happen.

But aside from that, i get the most enjoyment out of been 'consumed' by listening to music, it's an open window allowing me to tap into the deepest depths of my self, i guess you could say it's my escape from the circus of life :)
 
Big Band Jazz. Playing it, writing it, listening to it, talking about it, learning it in school. I live and breathe jazz trumpet.
 
it was cars i had an auto repair/body shop 9 yrs.....now....just a job that pays decent...my passion is planes and scuba/skydiving..dope....but if i can make scuba a job...then cool
 
llama112 said:
I wish I could find my passion. I haven't found it yet :(
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I just started reading a book by Georgetown professor Cal Newport that my girlfriend picked up called So Good They Can't Ignore You. It argues the unintuitive view that the ubiquitous and tautological "follow your passion" advice is not only bad because it creates expectations that lead to disappointment and resentment, but it's very rare to have a passion for work before the people who like what they do realize they actually enjoy it.

One study the book cites found that of the 84 percent of surveyed students who reported having a passion, the top five were dance, hockey (these were Canadian students), skiing, reading, and swimming -- none of which you're likely to make a living at. Newport also argues that we're terrible at judging beforehand what we actually end up enjoying, which is a welcome thought to those of us who have despaired and felt hopeless over being unable to find something we like that we can realistically make money at. Contrary to expectations, the most common route to ending up in a career that people eventually think of as their calling is being totally lost in life, having very few work-related ambitions, sucking it up, forcing themselves to develop skills that gave them lots of options, picking the one that they thought sucked the least for whatever reason, and only finding out later that they really enjoyed it. Some of this work is reviewed in a TED Talk called "The Surprising Science of Motivation."
 
For some reason this thread made me think of David Hume, in particular this quote: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions".....
 
The pursuit of happiness.

I break down life into moments, not days, hours, etc. Whatever I think will make me happy right then and there is what I do. Luckily, I'm pretty easily amused, so I'm not high maintenance lol.
 
Making stuff. It can be anything. My career up until 3 years ago was as a landscape painter/art teacher. Those fit the bill. Now I've lost the first and am still doing the second only for practical reasons and I feel a change a comin' ;). I have a very messy house because it is really more of a workshop--right now I am obsessed with deconstructing and rebuilding old books from free boxes.
 
My passion in life is learning new things. It doesn't matter if I'm learning about something as little as what's used to make peanut sauce, or if I'm learning about something as complex as the human nervous system; if I'm learning, I'm having fun.

Experiencing new things is my second biggest passion. I'm always open to new experiences because they're exciting and I always feel like I'm on an adventure! They also almost always teach me things, which goes back to the whole learning passion of mine...
 
Astronomy, marketing, promoting electronic music events, would eventually like to market the world of astronomy and celebrate my successes with major headlining DJs
 
Astronomy is so cool. Sometimes when I'm driving home from work, I have to keep reminding myself to look at the road and not the sky. I'm just in awe of it!
 
^ I've always felt like an idiot because I have a really hard time identifying constellations, even when someone is pointing them out to me. I still love the stars, though. One of the best things about my time in the Andes was seeing the stars every night. Here there is light pollution and fog so we don't get a very clear view.
 
My passion in life:

Work (I am a workaholic), Working out, tattoos, food, going to beaches, music and travelling.
 
^Yep, I'm a workaholic, too. :D

herbavore said:
^ I've always felt like an idiot because I have a really hard time identifying constellations, even when someone is pointing them out to me. I still love the stars, though. One of the best things about my time in the Andes was seeing the stars every night. Here there is light pollution and fog so we don't get a very clear view.
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I don't know any constellations, either. I'm simply hypnotized by the sparkly balls of gas in the sky. Just knowing that I'm looking into the past when I look at the stars (some of them might not even be there anymore) is mind boggling.

I'm fortunate that there's no light pollution where I live and can see the stars every night. Must be awesome seeing the stars in the mountains.
 
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