Dreams are over-rated
“Do what you love to do” is bullshit. I am sure it makes you feel good, but if you are not able to continue what you love to do, you will end up just like anyone else who didn’t pursue their dream… a bitter old person.
Americans make their decisions and action plans based on their emotion. Based on what they “feel” like doing. Problem here is feeling changes. Well, everything is impermanent, but there is nothing more jello-er than our feelings.
I know so many people who gave up on acting. “I lost passion,” is the biggest excuse. The truth is they didn’t get the success they expected, so they got tired of waiting for the next big break and moved on.
I don’t believe they ever felt passionate about acting. They just loved or liked the idea of being an actor.
Feeling and passion differ like “being horny” and “being passionate toward your lover.” When you have a boiling passion inside, you just cannot ignore it. All you can do is to just let it out, and continue doing it, no matter what. It always leads you to something larger (or trouble). When you let it out, there is a sense of satisfaction. The reward is in the doing, just like Charles Schwaltz, the papa snoopy said, “If you can make that passion your profession, you are truly the lucky one.”
Passion overpowers any dragging emotions, such as insecurity of feeling not good enough, or simply “I don’t feel like doing it.” Passion is the drive and the fuel that keep us creating our own unique life. It gives us the patience to learn the craft.
It is the BEST cure for laziness. The irony is, you just cannot teach passion to lazy people. They must find it within.
I never “felt” tired when I worked at the theatre. I have been frustrated and exhausted physically, and often cursed and yelled, “Why the hell do I have to do this?”
