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Never Do Anything You Don’t Feel passionate About
All my life I’ve tried to be practical, to do the right thing, to be sensible, to think about the future and to be efficient with my time and money.
Went to school, got the degree, got a good job, got married, had children, played safe, saved for the future, got life insurance and even built a pension. All that is great, it’s sensible and it’s rational…until it isn’t.
Nowadays I wonder what would my life would have been had I followed a different path. What if I had followed my passion instead of “doing the right thing”?
I know, I know, you’ve heard this before, it sounds a bit day-dreamy, a bit self-helpy and unrealistic. But at the same time you can ask yourself: “What do I have to lose?” Safety? Comfort? Predictability? Is it reasonable to live a life you are not happy with just to please others? Who are these others anyway? Do they care about you pleasing them? Is it all worth it?
Too many questions but only one answer:
Live the life you were meant to live
Don’t do anything just because is sensible
Don’t do anything based on fear
Don’t do anything for validation
Don’t do anything for credentials
Don’t do anything out of guilt
Don’t do anything to look consistent
Don’t do anything for peer pressure…
