What To Do If You Don’t Have Passion

Is not as disheartening as it may sound

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You might struggle day-to-day, arriving home exhausted and thinking, ‘is this life?’.

Constantly wondering why your friends and family all seem to be happy with what they do. They have a passion you just seem to never find.

You’ve tried to find your big fancy passion and there isn’t any. So, what can you do?

First of all, you need to let go of the pressure you are putting yourself. Finding a passion is not like a fail/pass exam. And more importantly, there isn’t a single passion, there might be many.

You are probably expecting your passion to be something you are incredibly talented at, and that can make you rich and famous. And since you haven’t found that one thing you just go through life thinking you are a regular person, that just happens to have no passion.

Truth is, we are complex beings, and as such we don’t necessarily have one passion, nor is it unchanged throughout our life. For a few years of your life, you might have a passion for x and y, but in the next few years it might shift and you find yourself having new passions and things you are interested in. That is perfectly normal, and it does not mean something is wrong with you, it just means you are human. Just like the rest…