01-31-2018, 11:50 AM
(01-17-2018, 12:16 AM)Rafterman Wrote: What are you passionate about? What is it that you wake up for every day? Every one of us has something that drives our lives. We may not even be aware of what it is, or we may be very aware. There is something that gives each of us a sense of purpose and makes us want to be alive. It is different for everyone. We should all try to focus in on, and identify, our passions. Scrutinize each one of them. Are they constructive in nature? Are they harmful to us? Weed out the bad ones and keep the good. Then embrace, exploit, and expand the ones which you are left with. Know that a sense of purpose (and passion) is the enemy of depression. A person of passion is on a mission. Keep your eyes on your passions and enjoy satisfying them. Don't be afraid to let others know what you are passionate about. Sharing those details make others more likely to embrace their own passions. And nothing is too "unusual". There are no right or wrong answers. Its about feeling. Its about personal preference.
Allow me to go first. I must say that my passions are fairly pedestrian, but they are what keep me going. I'll list three, of many.
1. My wife. I have been with my wife for 40 years now. I can't even imagine what we would do without each other. We are as one. I am completely emotionally over-invested in her and loving every minute of it.
2. Animals. I am an extreme animal lover. I mean completely over the top. I love animals at a higher level than most people love people. Their loyalty, goodness, beauty, and selflessness. Everything about them. I could not live in this world if animals did not exist in it.
3. Music. Music has been my companion, my confidant and my counselor since childhood. It has the distinction of being both a diversion from the rigors of life, while simultaneously being an indulgence in life itself. Nothing else quite like it.
Does anyone care to go next? What is it that keeps you going? Thanks, everyone.
Greetings All..
RM great thread. Without my passions my PTSD would have probably put me in the grave already...
#1 - My Family especially my daughter even though I am divorced and she lives about 350 miles from me. She just turned 19 and is the main thing I wake up for every day..
#2 - My Girlfriend and helping her out with the difficult times she is having after her son passed away last October.
#3 - MUSIC, for without I would not be able to keep my PTSD in check. Nothing better than getting in my car when feeling stressed, crank up the tunes and take a cruze down LSD...
Peace All
Fury
"Another Day In This Carnival Of Souls"