Passion and Life
Being young pulls you in so many different directions. What should I be doing, what is my ‘purpose’, how do I get there? Searching out for this passion that we’re supposed to have for something. I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, trying to live my ‘best life’ and squeezing all these things I need to do into what seems like a tiny amount of time. But it never feels like I get the things I want to do done, what is ‘squeezed in’ seems unimportant and distracts me from my real emotions. My job is basic and unrelated to what I want. I finished my MA last year, and it’s really getting to the point that I feel depressed and like a failure because I’m not more aggressively following my passions. ‘I should be writing more, doing more volunteer work. I should be more outspoken, and I should go to more protests and community meetings. What have you done? Deleted the facebook app? Wow /s.’ Let’s just ignore the fact that I have a job lined up living somewhere I want to live, in Ja...