What is your passion?

[kools]

If you want a vague answer, it's passion for knowledge & success. I don't mean financial success, I mean a certain focus on meeting goals.

More spicifiacally, I am passionate about music, attacking soccer, and food. I do not eat to live...but, the other way around.

 

[Tin Pan Sally]

I am passionate about human rights and raising my son to have values.

 

[John in Covina]

Passion

It is a great question because it makes many stop and re-examine their life as I am doing. I have always searched for my passions and occasionally find something but often it turns out to be temporary, sort of a personal fad.

BAck about 20 years ago a friend of a friend had said something that struck me and still makes me think. If you have something you are passionette about, something you love, and you can make it your vocation, you will never "work" another day in your life, because doing what you love never seems like work.

Now for me I am still searching, at the tail end of my forties and I still can't answer that question: "What do you want to do when you grow up?" Although I think I am closer to the answer. I have found I like to teach people and train people to do things, or understand a subject especially if it is tied to something I like. To pass along information and share those things I like. So if you've seen some of my posts on Fountain Pens or a little on shaving, there I do my best to share what I enjoy and I hope my enthusiasm rubs off on others. Now if I could just turn that into a career.

Micro brewed beer, wine and cooking are fav's, too. I am also involved with church. Travel for pleasure, history and a lot of quirky type stuff.

Ok world here I come ready or not!

 

[jamespowers]

Major Nick and Steve -- I, too, would love to go on expeditions to search for "lost" treasures: would love to research the lost Ark, and would climb Mt. Ararat, if I could, to look for the other Ark. Would love to search and find, if such a thing were possible, the Grail.

Also, I would like to scour some big lakes looking for Nessie or Champy or Ogopogo (sp?), or try to get a glimpse of the Yeti in the Himalayas or Sasquatch in the Pacific Northwest, if they exist.

Oh man! All of those and more. Mt. Ararat would be the utimate. With my luck I would find the Ark and the batteries in my digital camera would die just then. The same thing would go for finding any of the other creatures mentioned. I would be alll ready for that picture with the arm around the Bigfoot and the batteries would die. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
The only thing about finding and getting close enough to see one of those creatures is the thought that perhaps they might confuse me with food. If the Loch Ness creature is really a Plesiosaur then I want to see him from far enough to get away safely.

Regards to all,

J

 

[CharlieH.]

As of now, I have three passions that pretty much command my existence (almost). I love cartoons, both watching and making them. I'm a big fan of the old masters, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Walter Lantz, Ward Kimball, Chuck Jones, Fred Moore, to name a few. I've recently started to dabble in animation and the results look pretty promising, but unfortunately school doesn't leave much time for hobbies. I also have a penchant for drawing caricatures of my friends, usually with rather explosive results.

Another passion is model trains. All I ever wanted for christmas was trains (Though I never got them) and currently I have a small layout. I usually spend my vacations working on it, mainly on the tiny details (including men wearing tiny fedoras).

And of course, there's my passion for the golden era. No need to elaborate on that one, I guess.

 

[Twitch]

I'm passionate about WW 2 air combat pilots mostly and classic cars next.

 

["Doc" Devereux]

Let me put it this way:

Get me off the ground, and I'm a very happy man.

I also have a thing for the occult, the paranormal, and things about the world that don't necessarily meet the conventional explanation. Over twenty years of interest and study have gone by, and I now I write, lecture, consult and even get to occasionally impersonate an authority on the subject. But despite this what I love is the way it reminds me that despite everything I know, I don't really know anything. Long may that continue, because it's a wonderful way to keep a sense of scale.

 

[rue]

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Old houses..... I want to save them all from destruction

 

[The Good]

I'm very passionate with nearly any subject of history, but I find my focus primarily lies in the domain of modern American as well as ancient and medieval European and Asian history. I'm being very general, but I'm most interested in Greco-Roman and early European history. Other than history, some hobbies of mine include hiking, writing, piano, and when the weather is good for it, swimming.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Pastrami.

 

[angeljenny]

At the moment - learning home making, photography and blogging. Never expected to love blogging!

 

[AmateisGal]

Since as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about writing and history - equally. That's why I write historical fiction.

 

[rue]

Pastrami.

lol Now I'm hungry.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

BAck about 20 years ago a friend of a friend had said something that struck me and still makes me think. If you have something you are passionette about, something you love, and you can make it your vocation, you will never "work" another day in your life, because doing what you love never seems like work.

I believe this to be absolutely true! Ever since I first picked up a pencil...and a crayon..I have felt this way about the artwork that I have so enjoyed doing since very young. Retiring about twelve years ago from my regular job of thirtyfour years freed me up to explore..learn..and refine this passion. I can 'work' on an art project all day...even miss lunch..intently absorbed until quite tired..but it's a good tired. I look at the outcome...what I have learned..what I have accomplished..and how I have done better than the last one. Then..it's on to the next layout to perhaps even surprise myself as something often seemingly happens out of the blue to capture more than what I had hoped to create. A process that happily keeps me going...but striving for exactly what? Is it the better detail?...the better artwork?...the end result?..or is it really the experiments and often new methods of getting it 'where ever it goes'?? For once the artwork is done..I lay it aside..and although happy with it..I always feel that I could have done better....anxious to start the next one. It can be exhaustive...but rarely difficult...and never seems like 'work'.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Vintage, History, and the Past. Yesteryear in general fascinates me.

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

German and Finnish Maritime history.

 

[JimWagner]

What am I passionate about? Whatever I'm doing.

 

[sheeplady]

Teaching, research, gardening, cooking, baking, sewing, crocheting, spinning, old house restoration.

I don't think I'll ever be bored.

 

[Absinthe_1900]

This covers about three bases...

And of course this one too:

 

[Bluebird Marsha]

Hmm. There's a great many things about which I'm passionate. Some of which don't violate any TMI rules Falling into the stars through my telescope. Music and art. Reading. If you enjoy reading, you're never alone. Pursuing knowledge. If I can do that, even if I was locked in a prison cell, I would never be alone.