QOTD #58: What are your passions?

I don't know what I am passionate about. I have many interests that I can become passionate about for a time. Some I even return to, to rekindle the passion.

I've always assumed though that one's passion is a lifelong thing. Something that defines a person. I don't know if I've ever found that.

I makes me a bit sad.

 

I would have to say that I am too busy in the work of survival month to month to have a passion. also my interests vary alot

 

Pretty much as I am. I would say that my own frustration (not quite the right word for it) has to do with career paths. I am always hearing, "follow your passion", "what are you passionate about? Do that!"

Media has always been an interest and I've been lucky enough to make it into a career. I wouldn't say, however, that it remains a passion.

If anything, making it work has stifled some of the passion I once had for it.

 

Creativity Finding an outlet for my creative, artistic impulses has been a lifelong passion of mine, but over time I fluctuate between media, whether musical, visual arts, or writing.

Music has been the most consistent and longest-running manifestation, as I've been playing the violin since I was 4. In my younger years I did a lot of drawing (my profile picture is of a doodle I made during music theory class in 9th grade). I wrote what feels, in retrospect, like a crap ton of poetry in high school, college, and the first ten years or so of my post-college adult life and chose my undergraduate major thinking I was going to become a creative writing teacher. My current field of work, graphic design, is a creative outlet all its own, though not without the pressure, self-imposed high expectations, and mental exhaustion that comes with choosing any creative pursuit as a career. Most recently I've embraced digital photography and obnoxiously bring my camera pretty much everywhere I go... because you never know what you might see.

One of these is usually dominant over the others. The visual has come to the forefront in the last few years, mostly on account of my day to day work... though it's been a really long time since I've drawn anything or made any artwork that didn't originate on a screen. It's also been a really long time since I've written anything, and COVID's suspension of my music ensembles' activities has sadly pulled the plug on much of my motivation to play/practice my violin.

Cycling I may be slower than shit compared to other fitter members of my local community, with their carbon fiber speed machines, but I absolutely love riding and get downright grumpy when I'm not getting enough in on a regular basis.

Nature My first true passion that I embraced on my own. I adore the (non-human) living world and am especially fond of birds. I can thank my parents for that.