Whats your passions?
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- mg331
Man, what a simple and difficult question. I have several, and making time for them has been a challenge and a recurring conversation with a therapist I started seeing over the summer.
If I take my kids out of the equation, my main passions that are regular things are exercise/fitness, music making and photography. Snowboarding is a 1-2 times a year thing that I love more than anything else but it's not a regular thing. If I had my way, I'd spend every waking minute working on music, recording, writing songs, etc.
If I add my kids to the equation, being a parent, and striving to be a great parent raising good little humans should be my main passion. I mean, it is, but often sub-consciously, like most parents because it's always there as a goal and action.
But what I really struggle with these days is that balance of personal passions with family passions. I've found that I generate a lot of undue stress by over-committing in my mind to what ends up being very limited time for music. Then I get agitated and tense that I didn't use that time I try to give myself. Then I get stressed because I think "none of that should really matter, my kids should be my #1 thing always and above everything else." Then I get stressed when I think that would be unfair to not allow myself time for myself to do thing things I personally love. It's a real struggle to figure it all out.
Exercise and fitness, on the other hand, that's the main personal thing I really benefit from staying committed to. I know that I'd be outrageously stressed out if I just stopped working out. So I make the time for that without fail 3-4 times a week whether it's riding my Peloton or lifting weights.
But yeah... if you really want to know, it's making music. I've been playing guitar for 25+ years, my band came and went in the 2000's, and since 2010 I've been focused on ambient and instrumental music. My dream and goal is to find my way into more instrumental film score work, stuff I create that most people I'm around would be surprised to know I made. Stuff that my good musical friends would say "YES, that's EXACTLY what I'd expect from you." There's an underlying passion of emotion through a lot of what I do whether it's music or photography, or professionally, moving into a more content focused, storytelling phase as a UX designer for a content marketing agency. When it comes to music, finding these moods and such that are thick with emotion, feel like they belong in films and such, that's a huge focus for me.
- I wish I had more time for music also, I put myself up for one task to be completed before Christmas. Making a shorter list that is way more focused has helpedcanoe
- me visualize what and WHY I'm working on this one specific task/project... rather than fucking around all the time.canoe
- You have to purposely fall onto a project by spending your social time around those people, and your dreams will appear imhocanoe
- I would like to hear your music mg!Bennn