Passion Is Mostly An Uneducated Choice

Known is a drop. Our passions come from the same drop. Maybe, when we explore other water droplets around us, we may see that the passion we had was just a facade.

How reliable is our passion when a roadside ad banner can influence it?

How Many Can Have This Passion?

How many out of the seven billion people can develop a passion for luxury cars? Almost everyone. How many can develop a passion for luxury mobile phones? How many can get passionate about their morning coffee or smoking weed if it's legal? What about legal cigarettes? How many can develop a passion for smoking?

How many can get passionate about traveling? Almost everyone. Some choose not to do it often. Traveling is relatively easy and mostly almost takes no cognitive or physical effort to perform. Still, why are some not interested in pursuing traveling as their passion then? Maybe it's costly?

How many can get passionate about getting a perfect nose, chin, and jawline? Almost everyone. Despite that, only some prefer to take action and undergo surgery. Is it an informed decision or just happened out of huge external influence with skewed priorities?

What percentage of 18 yr old boys will develop a passion for Guitars if they watch a 25 yr old performing beautifully in an auditorium with almost every girl going berserk? Not everyone. We know it is hard to become a guitarist. But some will be okay to undergo the process to achieve the fruit. But what is the fruit here?

Why should we care about the uninformed choices?

Who is anyone to judge what a healthy passion is and what an unhealthy passion is? If the young children in a town get passionate about gifts and when we know it is the bears that are disguised as Santa Clauses, it must be a public duty to fight against the bears and save the children.

Most passions arise out of uneducated observations. What is the average income of a guitarist? Is the guitarist getting paid for the particular performance? Is the guitarist managing his ends to meet every month? Was he able to afford a good meal before the performance? Was he capable of taking care of his parents’ medical expenses? Are these important questions?

Freedom of choice or targeted external influence?

We can argue, Life is to live. We are going to live once and we must live it on our own terms. What makes one develop a passion or liking towards something? What it takes for a normal person to become a Trump supporter and march towards and into the Capitol? A right rabbit hole of YouTube videos can help us become anything that the rabbit hole wants us to become.

What is our own terms? When our own terms are naïve enough to get influenced by an advertisement banner on the roadside, should we respect it?

Some questions before dedicating our lives to a process will help. What is the fruit we are after? What is the cost and what is the gain? What are the odds? Why did not I choose the other options?

The passion does not have to be necessarily hard to be a healthy one. Some musicians love to spend whole days sitting and fiddling with music and its instruments. Some can spend an infinite amount of time solving math problems without getting bored. People in their comfort zones are productive.

Developing a deeper mind and keeping exploration a part of daily life can help. “Okay, I know this. What else should I know to become useful?” can be a productive thought to have every day.

Learning Compounds

I see learning as the io games like Agar.io, Slither.io, etc. When we start the game, we are a tiny blob who can’t eat anything around it. But! there will be some food which is smaller than us we can consume. As we grow, the options to consume grow. The bigger we get, the proportion of items that we can consume grows exponentially.

For instance, imagine we learn to play the piano and decide to spend hours of training. After acquiring that skill, new options will open. It could be a decision to learn music theory. The underlying piano knowledge supports and nurtures the incoming skill like a good caretaker. Okay. I have learned enough music theory to be dangerous. How do I produce proper music now? Do I need musicians? and we discover we can create music with software. Now we have two caretakers waiting to care for and nurture the new incoming skill.

Wealth is the abundance of options

Passion can arise out of a lack of options. What inspires us? How many things inspire us? A person who does not know how to drive a car can’t enjoy driving. A person who did not learn any sports rules can’t enjoy watching any sports. A person who did not learn how the movies work can’t enjoy movies. Purely out of inability, we may convincingly reason ourselves to have something else as our passion.

Known is a drop, but the size of the drop can vary from person to person. If one's passion lies in growing the size of the known drop, that would be helpful. There is an enormous possibility that after learning another drop of skills, the current passion may look naïve and simply baseless to spend our lives on.