Quilly asked on her
blog a few questions about passion. That's a tough one for me as until very recently I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, what I wished for. Truth be told, I still don't think I can answer that question quite satisfactorily.
The love of my life? The only man I ever met that I wouldn't mind becoming father of my children disappeared from my life way before any of my wishes could materialise. I do live in a relationship with a good man but... said relationship is by no means based on passion of any kind, at least on my side. *sigh* It is probably the cosiness and the feeling of safety that keeps us together.
At a time in my life sport was my big passion. I used to be a basketball player, and a good one at that. But there was no money in it in my time, no way of making a living off it. And the injuries eventually made me turn away from it.
I hated writing - any form of writing - for many years. I had problems composing an essay that would please my teachers... I have never been able to elaborate on something I felt could be told in a few sentences. It took me years - many years - and a number of coincidences to finally realise I CAN write after all. And what I can do best - which is saying as much as possible in as few words as possible - fits one certain form of poetry just perfectly, the form which is the shortest and purest of them all: haiku. Thus I have found one of my passions.
Another one followed shortly after. When asked what I wanted for Christmas one year, I replied on a whim I would love to have a camera. And I got my Canon Powershot A620, a compact camera with good performances and started snapping away. I had no idea about the technicalities or the rules of photography but enjoyed taking pictures of just about everything... everything but humans, that is. For some reason, I still don't enjoy photographing humans - other than an occasional candid shot, that is. I still take a lot of pics with the snapper although I have acquired my first DSLR last autumn. And the more I know about photography, the more I realise how much more I need to learn. And that applies not only to photography, but just as much to life in general.
