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What Is Your passion?

The Inner Peace lesson this week talked about finding a passion-with-a-small-p and getting immersed in it. As I sat listening to my daughter’s piano lesson, I thought about her teacher. This wonderfully talented woman’s passion is piano. She teaches and performs, lives and breathes piano.

I wonder how many of us actually know what our Passion-with-a-capital-P is. You know, the driving force in our life that fills us with excitement and joy. For some people, like the piano teacher, it is easy. But I can’t say that I have ever felt that way about anything, where I could do it 24/7 for the rest of my life.

Perhaps that is my style. I cannot think of a single thing that I would do the rest of my life (other than write, but that may wane as well). There are lots of things that became my passion for a while. And therein is the pattern.

I love to learn. Learning excites me. I like learning about different subjects in different depths, then moving on. This has gained me several short-lived passions and long lasting skills: I can still solve the Rubik’s Cube in 90 seconds; I can do calligraphy in a variety of scripts; I knit, crochet, spin, and sew. Some things I learned early in life I have kept up, but these are merely a matter of habit, rather than passion.

Of course, the flip side of having many small passions is that I never develop a true depth of knowledge in any one thing. Jack of all trades, master of none. But then isn’t that based on a lack of desire to pursue the knowledge?

So I continue, wandering through life, with many passions at a time. I may not have a great impact in any one area, but I will have expanded myself and followed my passion for learning. I will also be looking for anything that really grabs my interest and pursuing it to see if this is my true Passion-with-a-capital-P. Somehow, at this point in my life, I don’t believe that there is one.

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