I think the worst advice you can give to young people is “follow your passion”. It may sound exciting but it is self destructing!. Passion is far different from feelings.
If you follow your passion, you may confuse it with your feelings. If the winds of life blow, your flame may die out. Sometimes you cannot tell your passion from your feeling but these are different entities. Before I continue let me define passion and feeling from English dictionary. Passion is any great, strong, powerful emotion and feeling is expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
You have to follow your purpose. Remember, your passion is the flame and your purpose is the lamp stand.
Rather, fit your passion into your purpose. Under no circumstance should you deviate from your purpose in life hence our feelings and passion should rather fit into our purpose. Our passion fuels and facilitate our propagation to our purpose. Your passion should follow your purpose.
Whenever you feel like doing it or not, the purpose will help you fuel the passion. Find your passion and teach the passion to follow your purpose.
Starts doing what you love doing, don’t regret what you have done or the seasons you have wasted doing nothing. Focus on what you love and channel it to your purpose. Our purpose is actually our destiny and so if you don't reach your purpose you have failed in life. Remember where you have fallen and get up. Doing your passion is a decision, not a sensation. Make a decision today to do what you love doing. Practice and become! Passion is proven by perseverance, you haven’t find your passion until you feel pass your feeling.
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Remember, passion must fit into purpose.