CHAPTER 1: Passion Percolation

By watedroplet

This season I have thought to reflect on the book "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari." After deciding this, I landed on a new book, which caught my attention. This book is "So Good They Can't Ignore You."


CHAPTER 1

I think this decision to write on this chapter is apt for this hour. Since I do not want to disclose many things from my life, I would stick to my enlightenment at this moment.

So, today's discussion is on Steve Jobs. Over the years, he had been my inspiration, but this story of his I did not know. So, Jobs actually began his college life as a student of Western history and dance at the leading Reed College. Sounds weird, for the tech world knows him as a visionary and pioneer of the personal computer revolution. That is true. 

In order to make you understand what I saw in Steve Jobs story, I was carried to read the section of the book "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. In this book he describes logotherapy, which focuses on the future. In other words, it looks on to the meaning to be fulfilled by a person in his/her future. 

As I was reading Jobs's life, I felt something similar to my situation when I was in my high school, anxious for the future and uncertain about what was going to happen next. A situation that is very common with every adolescent. That is when Viktor Frankl's meaning to be fulfilled by the adolescent in his/her future will guide their way.

Now, when we are searching for the meaning, we will try many words/concepts/logics. Some of these would yield nothing and show us as a failure. It is okay; even Jobs kept doing things like studying Western history and dance and then dropped out after the first year, did nothing thereafter for a while, sought spiritual enlightenment, and even left a job for the same. I too faced something similar, and I can assure you, O Young Generation, it's okay to be disorganized and try to find meaning in your life. 

We are trying to find the meaning of our life, and it has no defined pathway; we have to carve our own pathways. So, the question is, where to begin?

Some say follow your passion. What do you say?

Well, that sounds good, but the problem is that passion defines what I want to do. It does not tell me how to reach my passion. Life begins from searching for your passion, and it has no definite time to discover. It might take one day or it might take years or even a lifetime to understand our own passion. 

So during this time when we are trying to discover our passion, it is okay to be confused, overwhelmed, unsatisfied, and lousy looking and, at times, a failure too.

While you are trying to disover your passion, don't sit back. Rather, try your hands at various skills and small opportunities that come your way. That skill will define your passion.

This is what Jobs did. I learned this the hard way, but I also started practicing it. This is what is reflected in David's story, who remained as a shepherd for all his childhood. Then he joined Saul's army and was mistreated. He suffered all. What was he doing all these years? He was gaining his skills. Then when his skills matured, he was anointed as the KING. His meaning of life was to rule like a king in the fear of God. 

This concept I started searching because I have to leave my job. This means my source of income was going to be zero. How to manage my situation then? In this pursuit, I landed upon the book called "Financial Stewardship." In this book, the author describes their financial struggle, and he did all jobs that came on his way to keep his finances going. We all come at such confluences when we feel we are following the right path of passion and freedom, but the truth is we are in a hardship to make us strong and wise in handling the tough times. So always remember, keep learning new skills; you never know which one might become your future changer.


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