Purpose Over Passion
Before you come for my jugular, no this isn't a comparison, rather a collaboration and well..... channeling.
So let's get right into it.....
I want you to view passion like a car and purpose like the journey.
You can be passionate about something or different things infact, but if you lack direction then you may not be happy with the life you live.
Purpose steers you, it guides you, it takes the passion, the energy and concentrates it.
You can be passionate about maths, caring for people, teaching and learning but if you do not have a vision or a destination that you are aiming at then you will move aimlessly and end up despising the things you love.
You know, the thing about us humans is that we try to fit our lives in a little box and anything that seems contrary to that box is labeled as "wrong".
We are multidimensional in nature. We aren't a fixed set that isn't subject to change and that's why what you loved when you were 5 isn't what you love at 19.
Now, if our passions are ever changing, how then can we do anything meaningful?
First, you need to understand that your purpose doesn't change but the mediums through which you express it can change.
For instance, you are sent to usher young people into their God-given destinies( your purpose).
Now you like to write, to speak and to teach, you are passionate about these things(mediums).
What you do is that you channel those passions, you use them as mediums to help these young people.
At various points in your life, you might use these mediums(speaking writing, teaching) to carry out the assignment God has given you.
You can hold speaking engagements, you can write publications and books to help this young people.
This way, you live by purpose and not passion.
The energy is necessary but channel it.