Finding Your Passion

So on twitter about a week ago, we got into a discussion about following your dreams and passions. Basically it started from a comment made that “if you have face and/or neck tattoos, then you’ve pretty much given up on Corporate America…. My response to that was, well, what if you never WANTED corporate America? The conversation went on to talk about, that, well, in the mean time of finding your passion, if you have to get a job that has to be in any type of an office then your chances are pretty much shot at getting it. And even though, yes, there is some degree of truth in that… I guess I just wanted to elaborate on the sad fact that more of us shouldn’t settle for jobs like that. If that’s not what you want to do, then DON’T DO IT. Ya know, its about taking control of your life and following your dreams.

One of the comments made toward me at the end of the conversation was that, I happen to be one of the lucky ones that found their passion early. And I felt I just needed correct that assumption, because really, quite contrary to that… I didn’t.. Believe it or not I started college back in ‘99 for Criminal Justice. I wanted to be a crime scene investigator (before it became a trend, lol) . And look at that, I went from Criminal Justice to the whole other end of the spectrum and landed in Makeup Artistry. And you know why? Because like so many, I didn’t know what the hell I wanted to do… but unlike so many, I took control of that. And I took that control any way that I could. I basically created a plan for myself to determine my passion. That plan involved looking back in my life and realizing that soo many things in our lives come and go. Interests, favorites, tastes, styles, hobbies, desires, likes, dislikes.. As time goes by and we get older these things change, yet if we can find the one constant thing.. The one thing that you’ve always loved to do… the one thing that’s always made you smile and the one thing that you’ve never gotten tired of over the years. When you can find the one thing that does not come and go… then you can find your true self and your true passion.

So, call me a bitch, but in all honesty… I think its bullshit when people bitch, whine and moan about not knowing what to do with their lives… I think its because they’re just not putting enough thought into it. Your living day to day in confusion rather taking the necessary steps to narrowing down what you really want to do… your passion. And of course for some people it will happen much quicker then for others… However it’s a process of progress that each of us who aren’t blessed with “knowing” should realize and do.