Concepcion, Palawan. 2011
Passion In Your Soul
Over the weekend, I have been thinking whether this thing, this so called passion would last a lifetime or if one day I’ll just find myself blowing dusts off my gear. Have you ever felt getting off track, as if you no longer know what excites you to do the very thing that makes you happy? Or too preoccupied with a more important responsibility that losses your chance to keep the passion burning and to keep you on the loop? What if suddenly you lose your desire to take one more photograph? What happens next? It may be a normal thing for most artists to forget about their beloved craft, but it’s a pretty scary thought, isn’t it? I believe though that true passion, no matter how you lose it, comes back to you before you even realize it’s back. It’s just temporary and it never leaves your very soul.
I’ve heard of artists cease to paint, I’ve known actors decided to stop acting and focused more with their families or other business. There are poets who lose inspiration and can no longer rhyme a few words. I guess it’s not about getting old with it, it’s about how you keep the passion alive no matter the diversions and how you search for it if you lose it.
Whatever it is that inspired and fuelled your passion in the beginning should be the same thing that should keep you going all throughout. There may be times of confusions along the way, but try to go back to that very thing that made you realize you wanted this craft so badly, and then you’ll find yourself back on track. Find and surround yourself with more new inspirations, know your weaknesses and discover new ways for improvement, involve yourself with friends that share the same passion, drown yourself with photographs or anything that you know can boost your passion, believe in others capability and make them your inspirations, and stop being lazy and go out and make use of those new inspirations. And as you grow, inspire others in return. Become a fuel to other people’s passion, a responsibility that you cannot afford to lose, and then you’ll find yourself wanting more and more of this craft.
But sadly in the end, we still couldn’t tell. And if we lose it despite everything, remember, true passion stays in your soul. You’ll find it again soon.
