Find Your Life’s Passion!

And when you find yours, tell me where and how you find it… I need to find mine!

Here are some questions we can ask ourselves to narrow it down:

• When you drift-off mentally during work or whatever you are *supposed* to be doing, what are you thinking of?
• Think of something you would really like to accomplish before you die – do you need to start now?
• If you had ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, what would you do (after the novelty of *nothing* wears off!)?
• What are your hobbies? If one of them *is* your passion but you can’t figure out how to make $$ with it, think again!

Once you have a few ‘passions’ written down – if you are like me, you will have a very zany-looking list:

1. Sex – everything about it is interesting, complex, and important – would love to do research on the topic, and I’m not being facetious! I mean serious studies!
2. Food / cooking - would love to have a successful cooking / recipe blog and help the world to cook a good meal!
3. Aquaculture / aquarium stuff / my fish & frogs – as with the food, would love to have the time & space to do some serious aquaculture. I believe it is the NEXT THING in food, and as a hobby, it’s a blast.
4. Survivalism -  I find myself wondering what will happen as we humans kind of hit the wall with regards to our ‘habitat’. We just don’t live in a sustainable way. At some point will be forced to run to the hills or at any rate do without the infrastructure (electricity/water/telecom/etc)? I think a lot about what one would need in a backpack or in a bunker in the woods to make it out there in the winter for any period of time if the shit ever really hits the fan in the cities/’burbs.
5. Sustainability – comes from the same observation as #4 but wouldn’t it be nice if that could all be avoided? What if i could design & build some kind of sustainable ‘pod’ like the things they are building in the Middle East (I remember some pyramid-shaped thing that had gardens & living accommodations and claimed to have a neutral or low carbon footprint).
6. Uplift humanity*somehow*:
   • open some big garbage-processing centre and hire lots of poor people at fair wages in a drug-free, positive environment (dorms – my friends accuse me of wanting to set up a garbage-gulag for the poor, but it comes from a place of love, honestly!)
   • self-esteem & intellectual stimulation & hope & motivation for children – Let’s face it, so many kids are nothing more than the byproducts of sex (see #1) and have a crap-upbringing.  Soooo many of society’s ills could be avoided by either birth control (FFS – if you don’t want a kid, don’t create one!!!) or a positive upbringing. I would like to see a *fair* situation for children, where the children of incompetent people are not *punished* for being born to the wrong people. It’s such a shame. The genes are sometimes rather good and shouldn’t be wasted.
   • possibly work at the higher levels of society, rather than with the poor and with the children. That may be where the most change can be effected

Imagine yourself as a kind of ultra-successful celebrity in your field (try this with each of your passions) – being interviewed for TV. What would you say to the interviewer? I would say something like, “Yeah, I remember back in 2010, I was broke and had no idea I could ever be so successful at this, but one day I just had an epiphany, cleared out a whole end of my living room, bought myself a few good-sized tanks and started breeding ____[some kinda fish]____ which led me in a pretty direct path to being a major shellfish supplier to the major grocery chains… .

Yeah… something like that!

OK, off to find my passion – now you find yours too!