Food For Thought 5 - What is your true passion?

I have recently subscribed to an interesting site called possitive provocations. They are running an article at the moment called 'knowing your true self'.

I hadn't realy thought about things from such a direct angle before, to understand your trueself you have to take time to think in depth into things that generaly people just dont think about. Today people generaly live to live, think to progress through the task at hand and behave how is expected from those around them.

This article takes you back to basics, giving you tips on how to relax and take a step back...followed by asking you questions such as what makes you realy smile so so wide? what do you love to think and talk about? and what would you do without having to think about money, what is that one thing you would do for free?

Seems to me as if the modern lifestyle prevents these questions from seeming relevant, you go to work (the average person working 9-5) and then in your rare spare time you spend it by watching fiction on television, running errons, keeping up with friends. Everything moving at such a fast pace that being run down is an accepted reality. At which point in all of this are you meant to truely relax? (i dont mean watch tv, a film or sleep. I mean centre yourself, be calm, enjoy the moment).

Unless you relax, you can never know or answer the questions above! you could guess or give a group of possibilities but to know these things you realy do have to think outside the box. The box being the bubble you live in, the routine you have subjected yourself too, the illusion of life you believe in.

Unfortunatly the majority of people dont ask themselves these questions until a later period in there lives, leaving most feeling it is to late. The amount of times i have heard people of an older generation telling me how they only wish they new what they do now when they were my age. There seems to be this on going cycle of knowledge and regret. Dont wait, make the change today and instead of offering knowledge acquired by regret, 40 years down the line, you could offer advise acquired by unforgettable moments and memories that you hold dear.