All you need

“You gotta find your passion, and you’ll never be bored in your life, when you do what you love.”

A quote by a famous philosopher, a celebrity figure maybe? No, I was told this by my tour guide who led us through Dublin today. A nice guy, with a seemingly unending knowledge about the city and Ireland as a country. I wish I could process and save all of the gossip, history facts and inside info I heard, but that would require a lifetime of study.
Which is what the tour guide did. Study all of it, every detail, because it was his PASSION.

We underestimate the power of doing something you like. I myself am victim of this mentality, the pragmatism of a worker in a capitalist society. “As long as it gives me money and the conditions are halfway humane” is the motto I’ve often applied to my own life. And a lot of the time, that is necessary.
Doing what you love is a privilege, and we mustn’t forget that either.
But if you get the choice, the opportunity to do exactly that — to live out what fulfils you, what your heart desires — then taking up that offer could be the greatest gift of your life.

I personally am agnostic, but even if you believe in some kind of afterlife for which you earn credit in your earthly one, what could be a better sign of selflessness and love than to do what makes you happy and, in return, make the people around you happy with it?

Not everyone gets this choice, and that is why the ones with the possibility to do so should do their best to make this world better, for everyone. And that might start with those little, personal things, that can have an amazing influence on everyone else.

Peace out,
Emilia