To Seek out Your Passion

Alessandro Mulya
4 min readNov 15, 2022
Photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash

Life has been guiding you ( and your friends, and your loved ones, and your families, and all others too ) to seek different paths. And as you grew older, you realize that those path might yield the best for them. And you care only about their wellbeing and how they will like their journey — regardless of them leaving you. That’s a healthy relationship as ever. And as you continue, sometimes you are the one that is seeking another path elsewhere.

It can be tough leaving friends behind. But like you want the best for them, they certainly want the best for you. Your life might never intertwine again, but hey, life does be like that sometimes. To bring out the best from you, a lot of variables need to be taken to consideration. Your career, your health, your wellbeing, perhaps a problem occur out of nowhere, maybe you seek what is going on on the other side, or pick any reason from your arsenal of answers to leaving.

Sure, this particular tip doesn’t work for everyone, and it doesn’t have to! If you have managed to life the best life ever and hates to leave and to do it all over again, I am extremely happy for you! To leave really is a tough decision. One of toughest ever in life, too.

But during those days, like this day I have been going through right now, it might strike a certain thought in your head to head out where ever your heart might leads you to, I’d say go for it. Growing older, sure, we have a lot to worry about. And those worrying baggage will keep on piling somehow, waiting on your next trip far away, making you stop for a minute and having second thoughts.

And during those sleepless nights where you must weigh out all the options, the worst case scenarios, the likability of good or bad things happening, the other variables that you forgot to account for, you began to think hard. Because both options is hard. And will only get harder as you continue. If you think you are through this moment right now — take a breather. A deep one. Finished? Take another one.

There is no need to figure out the future, because nobody actually knows what’s in it. And that happens to all of us, with no exception! We are all constantly figuring out life as we went by. You are not facing this alone, never at all. You can always reach out to those you believe can guide you through all this, take a shower and go out to both seek the answer and seek the chirping birds all around, and you can always do the things you like to soothe out your mind.

And whether you like it or not, comes the final decision; to seek out or to stay. Whatever that lies beyond that gate of leaving ( almost ) everything behind, know that life always have their ways to help you too, sometimes, not just throwing a rock at your direction. Sometimes you can find your muse without leaving anything behind. Sometimes you finally get what you seek out for. But sometimes, you really do have to go. And if you decide to go, for whatever reason it is ( not only because of your passion, perhaps you must to ), I can only wish you the best. And all others will wish you the best!

Live a life that is full of excitement and sorrows, because whatever is heading your way, no matter how big the wave and how tough the seas, you will always glad your ship actually left the harbor — at least once. Regret will always come later. They always do. To actually do things that you thought was out of hand and to try new things, to fail and to get up again, to witness what the other door may brings, to be the best version of yourself and goes on a duck hunt to do it, that all takes guts. So is to chase your dreams. And if I know one thing about dreams, it is deeply important to those holding it intimately, deep down in their heart. Your dream deserve a shot. And what better time to do it and to fail at it, and succeed at it, if not now?

( TL;DR ) Go for it! I wish you all the best, whatever your decision is! :)

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