Should I begin working? Should I take an internship? Should I go to university? Which course should I take?<\/p>\n
Most Class 11\/12 students have now entered the stage which I like to call the \u2018fast lane\u2019. All of our childhood we have drifted through life at a pleasant, slow pace, driving along without a care in the world. But now we find ourselves forced into the fast lane, moving at insane speeds, no time to think. And, if we are perfectly honest with ourselves, our cars are not<\/em> fully-prepared to be in the fast lane. In my case, my car can barely make it to the speed limit. And yet I somehow find myself in the fast lane. Because this is a part of life – eventually we all<\/em> have to move to the fast lane.<\/p>\n But what if I don\u2019t want to? What if I want to stay at a steady pace, driving at a speed that I<\/em> want to drive at? Not to mention, I don\u2019t even know where I\u2019m heading to. Which direction am I going in? What is my destination?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In other words, what is my passion<\/em>?<\/p>\n Ah, the existential question of the century. What is my passion? What is my purpose in life? What career should I pursue?<\/p>\n Or even worse – what if I don\u2019t have a passion?<\/p>\n Well, this brings me to a recent experience of mine. A video; an inspirational speech, one which, surprisingly, seemed to quench my fears and worries about my future – about my passion, or lack thereof. Ironically, I watched this video at school – seemingly at the source of my worries. But it was no less inspiring, and I highly recommend everyone watch this video.<\/p>\n The speaker was none other than Elizabeth Gilbert – the author of Eat. Pray. Love.<\/em> You\u2019ve probably heard of her. Well, Elizabeth explained how all her life she used to tell people to follow their passion. Follow your passion<\/em>. Keep your eye on your passion and work hard at it, and don\u2019t you ever stop.<\/p>\n But then came a voice. A voice from the crowd. A voice that changed Elizabeth\u2019s perspective forever.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t have a passion<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt like a jerk.\u201d cried Elizabeth.<\/p>\n And so she went home. And she began to reassess her perspective. For she was a woman who had known, all her life, that she wanted to be a writer. But some of us, or at least most <\/em>of us, don\u2019t have the same privilege. We don\u2019t know what we want to be. We don\u2019t know what our passion is – if we even have a passion.<\/p>\n And thus came the birth of Elizabeth\u2019s renowned words, words that helped me stay calm in the face of an uncertain future: follow your curiosity<\/em>.<\/p>\n Because who\u2019s to say we must <\/em>have a passion? Who\u2019s to say we must focus on one thing, and one thing only, for the rest of our lives?<\/p>\n \u201cThe world is divided into two kinds of people.\u201d said Elizabeth. \u201cThere are the jackhammers and there are the hummingbirds.\u201d<\/p>\n Jackhammers are the kind of people who stick at one thing, working hard everyday to achieve that one goal. Hummingbirds, on the other hand, drift from place to place, trying a bit here, a bit there, exploring a myriad of experiences.<\/p>\n I want to be a hummingbird.<\/p>\n I want to have my taste at an abundance of challenges, opportunities, memories. I want to drift from place to place. I want my journey to be curved and winding, not some dull, straight line. I want to be a risk-taker. I want to take that leap.<\/p>\n After all we\u2019ve been told – follow your passion, choose one pathway and stay on it – maybe we should be changing our outlooks. Maybe it\u2019s okay not to have a passion. Maybe we should be following our curiosity instead.<\/p>\n Maybe, just maybe, it\u2019s okay to be a hummingbird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Ebony Dalimunthe, Class 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyatmika.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyatmika.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyatmika.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyatmika.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyatmika.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dyatmika.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/dyatmika.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyatmika.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyatmika.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyatmika.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyatmika.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Follow your curiosity, and it may just lead you to your passion.<\/h5>\n
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