Is your job your passion? It’s complicated!

Busting the millennials’ biggest Myth

Anurag Chaudhary
Nov 3 · 3 min read

What’s a body without a soul? It’s the same as a career without the twist of passion? A human combats a life-long war. Unable to chart a path across mind and heart, one ceases to breathe and, ultimately, succumbs to be ordinary, preferring money over dream.

Somewhere in the process of filtering between passion and profession, there happens mass murder, for which nobody faces any charge and nobody is convicted and nobody is accused. They say abandoning passion is as same as murdering a child. Yes, it’s only the childhood that blesses us with divine art of dreaming and shaping castles of passion, unknown to what future would unfold into and what the next phase of life would award.

Passion v Profession

Every human has a passion. Some dare to morph coal into a diamond, without caring for millions of years if need be. The others just follow the crowd and turn into mass-shared faces, reflecting the fabricated nature of work throughout life.

Humans have been perpetually wrong at deciding what’s good for them. When conceiving passion, we never know what circumstances are associated with it. It’s just, without taking factors into consideration, we take for granted our juvenile thoughts that we will always stick with what our heart says.

Ask Pablo Picasso what it takes to convert colours into life. Ask Elon Musk what courage it needs to follow passion. Ask Steve Jobs, what it requires to be a magnetic field disruptor and eventually, an icon that the world can’t be more thankful of. Ask Einstein, how crazy he was after devising theories that could decode the core functioning of the universe.

Their achievements are far from questioning. You know why? Because they delved thousands — wait, it’s injustice. More; many, many more hours — into their work to find their passion turning into reality. And, finally, ask yourself if you too are in the same rat race to grab lion’s share of the passion that makes million an enthusiast go crazy, but it’s only a few who dare to adhere to their guts and shoot for the stars to pursue their dream.

In ours, it’s a famous slogan repeated daily by youngsters: “Baccha Kabil Bano, Kamyabi to Jhakh Mar Ke Piche Aaegi (Be capable my son…capable. Success will follow you no matter what.)” From the iconic Iqbal’s poetry, “Raise yourself to such great heights so, before every designed act, God himself asks what is it you desire.”

If you’re a dreamer, it’s destined that someday you will follow the same code, which all psychopaths, as the world says so, have been following since the first spark of fire, to first seed sown in agriculture, to the invention of the telescope.

“Who do you believe — yourself or what the world throws at you? It’s time to pick what’s best inside you and show the world your real gold within. It’s time to reflect so bright that for a moment Sun too gets overwhelmed by the shine of yours. Rise and take the command of your life.”

World is cruel. Believe it. If you try hard, it will melt you. If you try harder, it will boil you to death. A bit more, you will sublimate. Sublimation is winning. Phases come and go. It’s you — only you — have to stay strong rather caring for how harsh the weather goes.

Next time when someone — or your internal self — asks, is your passion your career? Don’t answer in yes or no. Say, I lost or I won. Because it takes courage to be one in a million. Because only one in a million is a brave heart to turn passion into profession.

Anurag Chaudhary

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He is 5'6". Wears shoe-sized six. Seeks novelty in passion. Morphs evolution into revolution. Follows pole star at night. Talks to angels. Masons words’ crest.

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