Excellent reminders! - It all has to do with purpose and meaning and a sense of belonging, and being able to transcend the cultural programming and create - and serve - something beyond self...
I "found" my passion at a very young age. When I was a mere four years old I became obsessed with learning to play the piano. I ended up earning a college degree in piano and I have been running a private piano teaching business my entire adult life. My passion for piano playing has GROWN steadily throughout my entire life. I play for hours every day and it is a source of tremendous joy and sense of accomplishment. I couldn't imagine life without it.
I have occasionally come across people who wish they had a passion for piano similar to my own. Yet they end up becoming frustrated and giving up.
Whatever our passion is, it MUST be a natural, organic discovery. I understand that some people never find it. But I think it's because they expect it to be some sort of "official" activity... like dance, or music, or art, or fixing cars, or gourmet baking. But it might be more nature or emotional oriented. As you say... perhaps it is simply to experience and share our true nature.
Thank you for your sharing here! Wonderful that piano-playing has touched moved and inspired your life so deeply! And beautiful that you can appreciate a more subtle, or inner passion as equally valid and inspiring :).
Excellent reminders! - It all has to do with purpose and meaning and a sense of belonging, and being able to transcend the cultural programming and create - and serve - something beyond self...
YES!!
Wow! Really outstanding post!
I "found" my passion at a very young age. When I was a mere four years old I became obsessed with learning to play the piano. I ended up earning a college degree in piano and I have been running a private piano teaching business my entire adult life. My passion for piano playing has GROWN steadily throughout my entire life. I play for hours every day and it is a source of tremendous joy and sense of accomplishment. I couldn't imagine life without it.
I have occasionally come across people who wish they had a passion for piano similar to my own. Yet they end up becoming frustrated and giving up.
Whatever our passion is, it MUST be a natural, organic discovery. I understand that some people never find it. But I think it's because they expect it to be some sort of "official" activity... like dance, or music, or art, or fixing cars, or gourmet baking. But it might be more nature or emotional oriented. As you say... perhaps it is simply to experience and share our true nature.
Lovely post!!!
Thank you for your sharing here! Wonderful that piano-playing has touched moved and inspired your life so deeply! And beautiful that you can appreciate a more subtle, or inner passion as equally valid and inspiring :).