I'm troubled to what path I'll take for the future so after reading articles about Passion and self worth I came to the conclusion that the best way to figure out my own Passion is to hear out other people's experience in finding there own passions and might as well themselves.


Also I know that this sort of things should be dealt with my own thinking and searching but I want to hear the advice and experience of others.

This is a tricky subject. My advice to you is research and try new things, learn new things. Think of your talents and skills and the things you enjoy to do, consider them. People change their careers many times and there are always second chances so whatever you decide today you can always change later. For me I found my passion in science, I'm currently aspiring to one day become a genetic engineer. I hope that I helped! ><

Do you mean passion as a hobby or passion as in something you want to form into a legitimate job one day? If you simply mean a hobby or pass time that you enjoy, look for things you are good at. I'm good at drawing and sculpting so I spend a lot of free time sketching and working on art projects. If you mean something you can turn into a job, that has to come from you. It usually stems from a curiosity about something specific, but the stronger "passions" come from a personal experience that gives you a mission or goal in life. My father figure died of Alzheimer's disease(aka AD) when I was young so I am real passionate about researching different treatments and cures for AD when I grow older. What you decide to pursue later in life should have meaning to you. The happiest people are people who have a mission and actively strive to complete it in their day to day life.

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Well when I say Passion I guess I'm talking about both hobbies and my future job. I guess I'm a fan of doing anything creative, things like drawing , video editing or designing are my passion but I'm not sure If I'm ready to turn them into something like a job or something. From what you said I guess i might not lack passion but the reason to go on and take something as a profession.

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Anyways thanks guys :D

yeah, I have to same problem because I've constantly switched from piano to art to architecture to writer. Though I now found my true path, which is to make people smile by creating games and working in youtube as a secondary job. :)

I found my passion by accepting that you don't have to have one single passion to dedicate yourself to through your life. My passion is everything. I want to learn everything I can and do everything that I find interesting in life. I want to take every experience that's offered to me, good or bad, and roll with it to get as much 'life' as I can. My goal is to be happy and feel fulfilled until I get to the day my body physically won't let me continue doing all the things that I love.

I don't feel the need to pick one thing to learn and am a bit sad that so many people do. The world has so much to offer, yet kids are constantly being stressed into learning one thing so that they can go to college for that one thing, be successful in that one thing, and eventually die knowing nothing but that one thing and the various information you gather through life. But why? Your head can hold a lot more than you think. You can specialize in more than one thing just fine; most people are just afraid to do it because it's been shoved down their throat for all their life that you have to go to college for it, college is expensive, and that you can only go to college once.

Fuck it. If it's something you can teach yourself, then do it. If it's something you need college for, then don't waste your money on the full major (unless it's abs necessary like doctor or whatever) - just take the classes you need to learn what you want, then learn to market yourself like the wonderful cunt that you are. And when you've raped all the money you can out of what you learned there, learn something else, sell it, rape it, repeat.

(Or at least, that's my mentality. I don't actually blame anyone for wanting something much more stable but also would like to say that you should never, ever limit your true passions for the sake of work, education, or future experiences.)

>>5 Wow, that sounds awesome!! Congrats!

Well, me as a kid, I wanted to be a policeman and get my dad into jail because he was annoying XD

I hate politics and as a young version of me I never understood engineers and i hated that job. Like really.

My dream, that I never told anyone, was to become a compositor and go to music school. Yet I don't know why I didn't told that to my parents.

When I started school I wanted to be a scientist, then because my sis became one, and I kind of hated her at the moment, I wanted to be a pediatrician, but I didn't pass the exam. Because of it, my whole world seemed to crash and I couldn't remember why I wanted to be a doctor.

As for now I'm studying at a scientist field in University, while studying Engineering at another university. The two things I hated most. But I'm not good at other fields rather than those so yeah...

Oh, I also study music. Now THAT is my passion. I play few instruments and my room looks like a record-music-room rather than a students room.

What I want from life? A well-paid job, and which doesn't requires me to work more than 6 hours/ day so I can have time to play music.

I took some music classes and there were some teachers, who were amazed at how good I play and how fast I learn, and bandmasters and some students at Music University and they told my parents(not me, but I overheard) and they called me a genius in music. And my parents didn't want me to hear that because they think music is useless. But they don't feel the way I do when I play it.

It makes me cry, the fact that I'm so good in a field I can not practice, but just in my room, late in the night so no one hears it. Thank God I have my own flat and there are no neightbours to hear me play music.

This is my only regret. The fact that I couldn't be a musician and make people feel better with my music.

I've told you this to understand my way, so whatever path you choose, please, make sure you son't regret later. Just the way I do.
But life goes on, and I will keep my talent for myself. Because musicians all over the world won't accept someone who barely studied music instead of those who studied it for years. And I understand them.

>>7 so why don't you surf on the internet for a while? if you have a computer (or laptop) with a webcam or mic with you , try to post your own recordings onto a website, maybe like sound cloud or youtube, since you get commented. What I want is that you can feel happy and accepted to the world of music. :)

>>8 what I want is that you should feel accepted to the world of music* excuse my horrible grammar AGAIN XD

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I have a passion in art and knowledge. My reason to follow my dreams (of becoming an artist and get to talk infront of people) come from my dark days. I was bullied a lot when I started school, I actually had no friends until middle school. I drew this manga-like pic of myself under a tree and I won the third prize. I loved the feeling of winning and I started to improve myself.
My grandfather is a talented painter and he approves my dream with full support (and I am only grandchild to love art, so he is happy about it). My parents approve my dream and my brother gives me ideas sometimes. I am this summer taking a test for two art schools and one art academy, I wish to get in one of them.
I grew up in a non-religious house and my parents grew me without any hatred towards any group of people (I didn't know about racism and bigotry until I was 13). My parents only teached that knowledge is power and it really is. My brother won first prize in history over 1000 competitors and I won in English grammar and History of Culture amongst my school. I am interested about the science of sex/gender and about psychology, of course about mental illnesses.

So...My dreams come from bitter ideas of showing that I am better than those who have made me cry and family business(?)

Well I guess I'm having that problem too but you know what? the best advice you're going to get is probably from your elders. Also if you're talking about what course you'd take for college then my advice for you is that you should be thinking about what you'd be doing after graduating. Anyways the best choice is the one you personally chose so just as long you choose with your heart and mind then I'm sure that you can never be wrong.



Good Luck :)

Also I'd like to hear what you would do so please post something once you did. Just like I said I'm also having problems it be good to see what you would do.

I had the same problem last year. I had wanted to study psychology at uni until i sort of realised that i don't know what job i would do afterwards, like >>12 said.
I had also started writing a book, just to get some ideas out of my head, and then i kind of realised that i really wanted to be an author.
I've taken a gap year to finish writing, earn a bit of money and think of what i want to study (in case i can't get published).
In the end i'll probably go for something involving languages (I'm bilingual), even though i hate talking to people, so that i can keep writing at the same time.

Sorry if this is a bit long and confusing :/

i guess the conclusion of my answer was that you don't necessarily need a career you're passionate about as long as you don't abandon what you are passionate about.
And that if you need more time to think, a gap year's not a bad idea, as long as you don't waste it.

Hope this helps

My passion is art, I wasn't really good at much else and it's always been something I have enjoyed so I'm studying illustration in the hopes I can make a living out of being freelance, but on the flip side I would like to be a singer even though I now suffer from stage fright when it comes to singing (I didn't have stage fright until some bullies booed me off stage at a talent competition try out)