Who are you?

What is your passion?

What is your why?

Are you cringing yet?

Like everyone else in this world, I hated these questions for a long time. It’s annoying. How am I supposed to sum up my incredibly multidimensional self in a couple words? How do I summarize all the things that bring me happiness into one little tiny passion?

The problem with these questions is that they are stagnant, and we humans are anything but. We are dichotomous. We are both happy and sad. We are both stressed out and at peace. We often resent labeling ourselves for fear that it won’t be accurate. But, It doesn’t need to be ‘right’, It only needs to be true to you, even if just for a moment.

We are ever-changing, and we are MEANT to be ever-changing. We are not one thing, we are not one identity. We are constantly learning, evolving, and growing, and that is exactly the way it should be.

We are both every bit of our being and at the same time none of it. Humans so badly want to put a label on it, but we are trying to label something that fits in no boxes.

Our natural state is boundaryless.

It is so rare for us to have a fiery burning passion that we are willing to give up everything for. That is the minority of us. The majority of us have a variety of interests, and if you’re like me, those interests change all the time. Rather than trying to force yourself into following a specific passion, simply follow your curiosity.

Following your curiosity will help you learn about yourself more than any ‘passion’ label will. By following your curiosity you can learn what is important to you. What you like about certain careers or hobbies, and what you don’t.

So rather than asking “who are you?” We should be asking “who are you right now?”

Not “what is your passion?” But “what would make you really happy at this moment?”

The only thing we truly are is our will. Our will to be whatever it is we desire to be in any given moment. Enjoy the space of figuring it out. Any passion that jumps out at you from no where prooobbably isn’t your life’s work. The process is meant to be slow, because that is how we know it is genuine.

Find the message you want to bring to the world, then explore how you want to delivery. It does not need to be through a single stagnant passion. You can deliver it while working at your 9-5. The idea of a passion feels intimidating because when we think of it, we think of a completely different lifestyle. BUT we can intertwine our currently reality, AND something that feels really important.