We have all heard it before. A teacher or a self-help guru or a friend posts a meme that says:
“Find your passion. Follow your passion.
Find something you LOVE, and do it, often.”
We are told that it is the key to happiness, finding the right career or the right work or the right mix of hobbies. Some of them are trying to sell you on counseling or career services or a coaching program of theirs.
We start searching for our passion. We try out different activities and hobbies. We join Meet Up groups. We find that we like to do certain things. Maybe we like to write or knit or go rock climbing or sell real estate. And so we do what they say, and we follow our passion, and place it first and foremost in our life.
Maybe we find success, begin to prosper financially, buy a new car, get ourselves a cat, take a few vacations and travel the world. But still, we drink wine a bit too much at night. We take the occasional Xanax for anxiety. Another relationship goes bust and we can’t figure out why.
Most of our friends are raising children, attending softball games, making school events.
Eventually everything crashes around us.
We no longer find passion in our work or career. We don’t understand why and we return to counseling or pay for more coaching. We drink wine every night now. A sleeping aid is now added in to our regular mix of drugs.
What happened?
We did what we were told, followed our passions, pursued it to the expense of all else.
We should be happy, satisfied and content, but we are not.
We were lied to. That is the problem.
Because in the end, we are animals. We are flesh and blood, and squat to defecate, just like a stray mutt does.
We have all of the instincts, genes, intuitions, drives and passions of animals, being animals ourselves.
We weren’t built, neither have we evolved–to love anything beside food, sex and our family.
Those are an animal’s primary passions.
We weren’t built to love work, to love real estate development, to love math or writing or flying. We were built to love our children, to care for them, to raise them.
We were created to love our husband or our wife, with an almost unquenchable desire for the opposite sex.
You want to know the truth about work, and careers?
Find something you are good at, and stick with it.
Leave your passion and your love for other people, who are capable of loving you back.
Otherwise, you just might find yourself successful, alone, treading the water of the days of your life, unloved, and slightly stoned.
If you cannot find your passion outside of love for God, love for country and love for family, know that there is nothing wrong with you.
In fact, you are normal.
Don’t go trying to reinvent the psychological wheel.
Accept what you are, and be yourself.
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