Whats your passions?

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  • RumperChunk2

    About to open our first shop as a front to the studio, feels like it’s the only way to get eyeballs on the stuff we make in the ‘personal project’ time, and something we’ve wanted to do for a long time now - Our two boys are so excited, they’ve been planning and making, decorating, using power tools... great family project, we homeschool as well so it’s a great way of teaching them real world stuff. Plus I spend more time with the people I love...

  • 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
  • maquito2

    My son.
    My wife.
    Drumming.

  • canoe5

    Many passions... but the latest trend is more of a re passion... weekend mornings usually include buying and listening to a full length LP from start to finish while doing other shit like cooking or cutting wood.

    I feel like I get something out of the experience... I'm not sure how to put into words, but it feels different than a morning of random music...

  • deathboy0

    i just like to get my dick wet. keep it basic

  • BrokenHD0

    my two boys, nature, writing raps, art. everything I do is to get back to these 4 things.

  • OBBTKN2

    Drawing, cycling, cooking, music listening... I can not practice my passions all I want, coz I work a load of hours a day, but ey, sometimes, my work is part of my passions too...

    But being sincere, after thinking on it, my wife is my biggest passion on life

  • boobs0

    Drinking and f**king!

    • You've not done the latter since the 90s.Nairn
    • You'd be surprised!boobs