I’m Not ‘Passionate’ About Anything
But I am interested in many things
When I type in “definition of passion” into Google, this is what appears:
Passion: strong and barely controllable emotion.
Plus something about the death and suffering of Jesus. Anyway. I am of a mind that language belongs to those who use it, and meanings can be subjective depending on the intention. For me, when I see or hear the word ‘passionate’, my mind begins building stories of “doing it for the art!” or athletes punishing their bodies again and again because they are passionate about it.
I tend to view passion as an all-consuming desire, and I see a lot of examples of those who experience this deep emotion about that one thing, whether they gain success in that endeavour or not. In my own experience, I used to think I was passionate about music. I play instruments and have studied music my whole life. I do sometimes get emotional about the way certain music can make me feel, but I never thought I had that level of passion I saw other people had about it. To me, it was just something I was knowledgable about and good at doing.
Then when I compared my experience with others, I became quite depressed because why didn’t I have that one thing? Am I just some kind of emotionless robot? How do I respond to “follow your…
