The Truth about Passion

When I was in high school, my dream was to become a clinical psychologist. Ever since I remember, I had been in love with people, listening and trying to guide them through their self-discovery process. However, sometimes life takes us away from our dreams just to help us discover others. That was my case and I became a teacher. As a teacher, I wanted to inspire young minds and souls in following their path living their lives to the fullest. Adults, with all their preconceived beliefs could be hard to change and deal with. They have this tendency of sticking to what they think is true. It is called manipulated training and whatever they have been trained to do they will. I figured out that it would be easier and wiser to help the not yet fully tamed young minds rising.

After twenty years teaching I can say confidently that I have fulfilled my mission and have consistently followed it. My passion has been evident in the many faces and success stories of my students whom, besides learning a subject, have also been able to learn how to live a better life.

In following that passion, I decided to cross the world, far from everything I know. I abandoned my comfort zone with the dream of reaching out to children in a far away country, sure that a different mission was waiting for me. I am here and, after a week, I am beginning to see the truth about passion.

Your passion will take you to many places. It will give you the strength to take many risks. It will prompt you to push yourself harder, rising your own expectations, wanting to do more in achieving your goal. That same passion blended with the Divine will guide you towards the discovery of hidden aspects of yourself, things you were not aware of, truths that sometimes will hit you hard, making you feel confused and disappointed. Passion by itself is just a human drive, hidden or not. Divine passion is the learning process, the doing with a real mission which once discovered have the power to totally transform your life. There is where I am standing now.

I didn’t come here to teach but to learn. I had to be here to see firsthand the real world which most of the time is disguised and hidden from the public view. I had to look in the eyes of the children begging for food, to see how luxurious mansions are built next to a family of six living under cardboard ceilings and beds made up of dirt. I had to witness the rejection, indifference, and purposeful alienation of the people forgetting their own people.

My passion brought me here not knowing that I would become a learner in order to write my best lesson. My mission is complete. My Divine Passion has just begun.