Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you. ~Oprah Winfrey

Have you discovered what makes the child inside you happy? Do you want people to recognize you by your passion? Do you feel everything else you do is a waste of time?

If you could relate to any, I am sure you fought many, including the ones from your personal sphere, to take the first stride towards your passion-driven journey.

The eventual destination is beautiful, not the eventful roads. And there comes a tricky time when the thought to quit puts a strong fight with the motivation to endure.

Difficult time this! Thoughts like ‘people are right and I am wrong’ barge in to haunt now and then.

But here’s some respite:

We’re all in this together! With dry tears to shed, extra baggage on the mind, passionate people look alike.

The gospel truth.

Nobody cares about our bare strides on blaze unless we cross over the line. That’s uncanny but the truth. The enduring process does not have an apparent existence, only results get an exposure.

Who suffers the most? The passionate people struggling to meet the materialistic end of their creativity.

As difficult as it gets: The road is not pre-defined, does not guarantee success, and with life’s unpredictability, many break midway.

That defines many sad stories!

Spotted the major obstacle?

The conventional people from three spheres—personal, professional, and social. These people look different but by true nature … carbon copies.

How? They judge individuals by their materialistic possessions.

Don’t think we can blame them either as their mindset is producing results. After all, money is the first eligibility for happiness in this materialistic world.

‘Answers’ these people seek on the time we need to prove our mettle.

But what’s difficult is to make them realize is we are capable of enduring hardships, but helpless to the answers on results. Consequently, many passion oriented careers are bleeding to death because of people’s ignorance.

The unsung battle.

In our continuous efforts to connect passion to materialism because of the peer pressure, the positives of perseverance give way to negatives of stubbornness. I am afraid the creativity is losing its shape, and the zeal seems to fade away.

And till the time we don’t prove our passion’s materialistic worth, most individuals including your personal sphere perceive us useless, irresponsible, purposeless, the most unworthy person one can become.

These people don’t realize our needs are different. They cannot sense our thinking differs from the monotony.

We want them to understand the needs of the pure soul; they want us to fulfill the demands of the materialistic mind. And this difference prevails!

Should our passion surrender to the boring monotony?

Never! The throbbing truth has an interesting story to tell. Gallup poll says 85% of the people hate their jobs. It means almost 9 out of 10 people don’t love their source of materialistic fulfillment.

The possible reasons: Most people bow down to the bread-butter needs, some surrender to the overburden of responsibilities. Many never explored their passion, who did could not pursue.

And amidst the skepticism, passionate people like you and me, who dare to strive, must linger to become exemplary.

But the question remains for how long can we endure?

The imperative action. (Conclusive strong motivation)

Straight-out, let us stop expecting from people to evoke a guileless self-belief.

Let’s be practical:

Everyone is hitched to own struggles. People will admire only when we turn into a person they can look up to. So until we prove people wrong, the dissension persists.

So let’s respect the difference, not question it, to keep moving.

What’s the bottom line?

The fight is undeniably difficult; winning requires bridling the fidgety mind which is a prey to the dominating outside world.

Come on mate… the time will share our story only if we dictate the time now. Let us stop worrying about the temporary glitches which we call failures, they are only the inroads to a beautiful road.

Let us stop maneuvering the inevitable pain to achieve our goals than to get buried down under.

Still lacking motivation?

1. Recall your gutsy initiation to break a monotonous life
2. Remind yourself about the dream life you can be proud of

That injects a strong dosage of self-motivation to endeavor… Good luck!

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