Finding Your Passion

I started writing this right after watching Julie and Julia and as it so happens, movies move me emotionally into action. The movie from my point of view was more about entrepreneurship and doing what you love than it was about food or the characters themselves. The main thread tying film together is the deep

connection with the topic they chose to learn about . Julie and Julia were driven to a something they’ve never really explored before. A passion so profound it drives you to be the best you can be at something.

At the risk of sounding complete self-absorbed myself and taking into consideration that I just watched the movie two minutes ago, my fingers are simply typing what my brain and heart are dictating, I wanted to explore the reasons why people do what they do. Why people choose to become engineers, coders, cooks, teachers, businessman, traders, entrepreneurs or heartless money making machines. And it all boils down to where come from and who you know growing up. As simple as that.

Let’s start by noting that I’ve always managed to do what I like. Sometimes successfully and many others simply a flop but somehow it has worked out; knock on wood. And I’ve tried many different things from bad to great and the main lesson I’ve drawn from many trials and failures is that there is really no match to the feeling of experiencing something you always wanted to do. Nothing.

I’ve experienced sharply distinct feelings in very different worlds and that contrast is what makes me what I am today. I am far from done understanding and shaping who I am but what I do know is that when you find that trigger of passion, that tingly feeling in your heart that makes you jump to reach for the stars, that’s when you know you’ve found your passion.

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