When do you realize what your "true" passion was?

[Extraterrestrial1999]

I knew what it was early on in life

When I was a teenager, or around that time

It took me until my adult years to figure it out

I have more than one true passion

I still haven't figured it out

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*When did you

[AmandaYVR]

I have issues with these terms, "true passion", "true love". I don't buy into them, tbh.

It's too limiting, too. We humans aren't that straightforward. We're messy. Life is messy. Things come at you. You develop expectations. They don't pan out, you have to recalibrate, or reframe.

I have had many passions (several? a few, anyway), but having them isn't really like a golden ticket, or a big red flashing light, or a beacon like a sun. I don't know. They're just motivators, interests. You delve and delve, and hope that your curiosity about them doesn't end. But, honestly, most will end; unfortunately.

There is another line of thought on this (which I think I may also subscribe to now) -

Don't try to turn your passion into a career, or your livelihood. Because if it doesn't work out, monetarily, you will then have corrupted, in a way, your 'true passion.' And then you've lost that. Sort of like asking a good platonic friend out, whom you loved or cared about, but they couldn't handle the situation once they said no and did not reciprocate the feelings. Then it is too awkward to continue, once that information has been put out there. This very real potential scenario is the bain of many an unrequited loves that never came to be. Anyway...

I wasn't able to adequately monetize my passions. And I'm in, let's say, my four incarnation of that right now. I might be kidding myself. But, not really, because I'm a cynic and skeptic by nature, pretty much. I don't think I'm delusional about this. I just find it hard to get out of bed in the morning without some goal in mind, and I would say the 'goal' is more amorphous than that, really. It's a passion. And I have to see it through. Even though I have no idea whether this one will be the one that breaks through.

Good q, by the way. I was probably asking this at your age, too.

[chicken_nugget24]

Still not figured it out yet

[Anonymous]

I'm still searching for it.