"But Luke! There are plenty of people who want nothing else then to be a musician, and they never got famous. I know, I had a friend who knew a guy who played at bars for fifteen years and nothing came out of it!" I know that's what you are saying to your computer right now. In a way you are right. I am not so naive as to think that everybody can become a super famous musician who does have the passion, but if in the end all you want is to be famous, there are lots of other ways like acting, video making, being a professional sports player, streak on the field during the super bowl, shoot up a downtown mall...if your only motivation is being famous, you can find a way. ***NOTE: LUKE CROSSMAN IS NOT ENCOURAGING OR CONDONING SHOOTING UP A MALL, ONLY COMMENTING THAT PEOPLE WOULD PROBABLY REMEMBER YOU IF YOU DID...HOWEVER, HE IS CONDONING AND ENCOURAGING STREAKING AT SOME PROFESSIONAL SPORTING EVENT*** If your passion really is music, then that example you so rudely interrupted me with earlier is a great example for my case. He had fifteen years of sharing his talent with others.
It doesn't even have to be a thing that makes you money. I have a passion for daydreaming. I have notebooks full of things I could do with a million dollars, or what my dream house would be, or ranking the cars I would want, or what career I would like to have in a few years. I will never make a living by daydreaming, but I make sure I get all my work done so I can have that free time to do
that. Writing down what the perfect future would be has given me some ideas that I might have passion for.
This leads me to why I began this post, to tell you what I think my passion is now (not to ask you what yours is or encourage you to find it because I am grossly self-centered). My passion is film making.
"OH LUKE! You are such a hypocrite! First you preach to us about how you think people don't have the passion to be one of these fancy musicians or actors, yet you posses the motivation to become some big-shot Hollywood director?" Wow, you guys are ornery today. Notice, I said "think my passion is now". I do not know if I care enough about film making to make it in the business, I realize it is brutally competitive, and increasingly less profitable, but all through high school, I have loved coming up with movie or short ideas. My interest might wane over time, but it has only grown stronger over the past five years or so. I would be lying if I said that I wouldn't want to be a big Hollywood director and make buckets of money, but I can say honestly that I have so much fun making videos that earning money for it would just be a nice bonus. I want to be like Olan Rogers. You probably haven't heard of him before now (if you have I love you), he is just a guy who makes regular content on Youtube. I personally find him hilarious, but my favorite part about his work is just how pretty it is, especially his newer stuff. That is the best word I can think to describe his videos are just pretty.
Now that I have told you what I feel like I have passion for, tell me what your passion(s) is/are. Have you found it, are you doing it, are you still looking for one? In addition to politics, I love to talk about what people like to do most. I enjoy finding passionate people, they give me hope and make the world a little brighter.
Here is an example of Olan Rogers more artsy stuff, but I enjoy this video:
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