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The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Find Your Passion
I didn’t fall in love with writing until two years after I started.
I didn’t know I was passionate about writing until after two years that I started writing.
The label “writer” hadn’t even crossed my mind until then.
When I started blogging at eighteen, I did it because I had nothing else to do with my life. I wrote articles because that’s what I thought I had to do — not because I liked it.
I disliked writing throughout all my school years. Come to think of it, I earned myself an F on my English final my senior year.
Being passionate and looking forward to writing every day was never something that crossed my mind.
And then I started writing.
You won’t wake up one morning suddenly knowing what you love
Most people have a job they despise because they don’t know what they’re passionate about, and instead of searching for that passion, they hope one day they’ll find it.
People expect to wake up one morning suddenly knowing what they love, what they would maybe quit their job to pursue.
