I often feel confused when people ask me, “So what do you do?”
Does this person really want to know the things that I’m passionate about, or just want to know how I make money, or does this person just trying to get a glimpse of who I am, which is another difficult question to answer.
Since I was little, I’ve never been someone who’s only into one thing. When the world favours a specialist (really good at one thing), I’m more like a generalist. I love to learn and be good at many things. I’m passionate about multiple things in life. From diving, traveling the world (I’m a master of getting a really good deal on flight ticket 😝), teaching, creating business process, styling myself, yoga, farming, cooking, doing healing work, and the art of intimacy (ahem…), and so many other things that when I’m into something… I’ll go deep in it.
And when I got bored, I move on to the next.
Just like everything that’s both good and bad, this tendency of getting bored quickly and not mastering only one thing can be one of the factors that prevent my “success”.
But you know what, I’m really happy and content with my kind of success.
I might be slower to achieve “success” because I want to learn tons of things. At the same time, there have been times in my life where it was needed for me to juggle many life skills. And most importantly, if I try to label myself into just one thing, it’s like trying to kill my true identity and pulling me away from my life purpose.
God/life/universe doesn’t create me as a multi-passionate human being for no reason. I’m designed precisely to be the person that I needed to be so that I can fulfill my life’s purpose. That’s why gone are the days where I tried to fit in with the society standard. I’m a multi-passionate human being that many can’t put label on, and I have my own unique path to walk on. It’s not better or less than others’ paths. Which is why comparing ourselves with others isn’t necessary.
Fakir Cuti 