What do you Love?

What do you love? What do you love doing? What brings you joy? What are your priorities?

I think somewhere along the line those questions end up stretching farther and farther apart when really they should be fairly closely linked.

Why does what you love and enjoy doing seem to be the last thing on your list of priorities?

Why does it seem like the thing you have the least amount of time for?

Why does it sometimes almost seem like a distant memory?

At some point in life I think we all start to follow societies norms without even really questioning what we are doing. We go to school because we need an education, we continue with that at college or university. We get part time jobs to pay for the expense of school. We hope to get a job in our field once we get out of school. Then we get busy working, working, and more working. Before you know it your priority is basically working. Yes you may fall in love, get married, have children, but even in all of that the priority becomes work. You may love your job and be happy dedicating your life to work, but I think that's the exception instead of the norm. Even if you don't love your job it ends up becoming your priority. This could be for a number of reasons. Finances are a big reason. Fear is another huge one. Pride could be another. If you are relating to this, than I challenge you think and ask yourself if you are doing what you love? What was it that you really loved to do in the first place? Do you love to draw? Do you love music? Do you love to work with people? Do you love to cook? Do you love talking and listening to others?

I often wonder what would happen if we all did that thing that we loved doing? Would the world be a different place? Would there be more inventions? More art? More music? More cures? Less greed? Less depression? Less anxiety? I wonder if we'd all be healthier?

I'm not talking about just doing relaxing things, like laying on beach. I think we all love that at times. I'm not talking about neglecting our responsibilities. There are things in life you just have to do, scarifies you have to make. I'm talking about remember our first loves. What did you play as a child? What make believe stories did you act out? Were you always playing outside? Were you inside painting pictures? Were you building things? Were you a pretend nurse or doctor? A fireman or police officer? Were you a zoo keeper? Were you a little scientist collecting bugs? An inventor? A vet taking care of animals? Did you play store? Or house?

As we start to see our life around us become uninspiring, boring, monotonous, we may need to take a few moments to re-evaluate our priorities. Why are we doing the things we are doing and should we continue on this path? Should we look for other ways to incorporate our first love? This could look different for all of. For some of us it may be a major shift, a wake-up call where we change careers and try something completely new. For others it may be taking an art class in our spare time. For some it could be volunteering and working with people in a different way. No matter what, we should all make doing the things we truly enjoy a priority. A part of our life.

You know what one of the best things about doing the things we love? We are typically good at them. Whether we really admit it or not, if you have a passion for something you most likely also have talent in that area too. Sure it may be something that you could develop further. Wouldn't be a wonderful gift to the world and yourself if you invested your time in to that?

So what is it: What do you love?