Live Your Passion

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LIVING YOUR PASSION CAN SOMETIMES CHALLENGE YOU.

The other night my boyfriend had a dream where the little people stole his paintings.

He’s a landscape painter and we are stuck in the middle of winter so there haven’t been a lot of days for him to go outside, follow his passion, and paint this month. I can tell it wears on him, sucking the enthusiasm out of him day by day as he spends more and more hours designing web sites and writing content for his clients when he’d really rather be outside painting.

So he had this dream where the little people showed up, stole his paintings from his studio and he spent most of the dream chasing them around. He told me this the next morning over coffee and wondered what I thought of it. I’m no dream analyst but what seemed really clear was that he felt robbed when they took his paintings and in the dream all he wanted was to get them back. I asked him what purpose his paintings served and he stopped dead. He stumbled over his words as he flubbered through something that sounded halfway believable but I wasn’t buying it. Why? Because there wasn’t any passion in what he told me. Nada. No fire, no life nothing that ignited a spark while he was talking.