Finding your joy
I had a lot of this in the past when I was drawing comic strip, it was one my early passion from the age of about 7 until the age of 14 and then for some reason I switched to music and song writing , it was great passion during many years, then I lost interest and I got a new passion for computer programming, I loved programming it was a true passion, I was a code enthusiast to the point that I worked as software programmer for various dot-com between 1999-2001.
Nowadays, I m not too sure if I have found a new passion yet, drawing comic strip , song writing, music, programming none of that fill me with pure joy, I also lost the knack for those things.
Today what fill me with most joy is my travels, I try to make one travel every two months and I realize that the essence , the common point in all my past passions is that I love exploration be it inner like when I create a fantasy world in my comic strips or outer like during my travels.
(I took this picture in Elche near Alicante(Spain))
Writing for my blogs is also joyful and I’m currently working on a video clip or slides show inspired by a message I read in the book - Living On Love by Klaus Joehle, this activity also give me joy.
Essence is the single element that give happiness in your activity, it wouldn’t be joyful to me to write a blog about car insurance, it wont fulfil because I don’t care about this topic. I need to explore something of interest to me.
In her book ‘Wishcraft – How to get what you really want – by Barbara Sher, also explain the importance to know your essence however she uses the word ‘touchstone’ for it for example her book she gave an example:
Dream: Be a movie Star
Touchstone : acclaim for fine acting
Touchstone or essence come down to value fulfilment – giving a meaning to what you are doing and seeking and expanding your potential.
Growing up vs. being yourself
I heard all the time here and there, ‘grow up’ someone do something inadequate that doesn’t fit and she or he has to grow up, when we act truly as we are we don’t have to grow up, growing up for what ? Usually, growing up in today society means to adopt some sad rules that make us feel unhappy, you will rarely come across someone in the street that is dancing with her or his walking, people have to grow up they aren’t allowed to do such thing, yet yesterday I saw a woman who was walking like a ballerina, that the way she is and it was nice to see such person, usually people walk in the streets with a serious look on their face, growing up also means to be so serious.
I found out that one of the thing that prevent us to be ourselves is fear, I have a friend, he is a talented composer and he own a home-recording studio but he doesn’t work as a music composer, he has some boring office job that doesn’t fulfil him, to him living as full time composer can be a bit of a risk there is no guarantee of success, he doesn’t compose ‘commercial’ music, so fear is a bit of barrier to him and, it the case for many other.
I’m sure that if my friend immerse himself in his passion a path will open, it always like this, I also observe that when a path didn’t open it was because the person was sabotaging herself or himself, the person had an inner dialogue that went like this ‘ok, I will do it , I will give a try, but profoundly I don’t believe I deserve it or I can make it’, with such inner dialogue the person was bond to not use its full potential to have a door open to many joyful opportunities.
You know those people who win gold medals at the Olympic game they truly believe in themselves, check out their interviews you will see that their winning was something they excepted, it was not some random occurrence.
In final being ourselves and embracing our passions will bring us a bigger reward than being caught in a bizarre 9-5 job that we don’t like, usually if you like something but you fear to do it for some reason then your passion is may be there just waiting to be embraced.
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