Passion

This is a speech I had to write for my English homework and Phoenix had given me some tips on how to write it. (Thanks buddy💝)

What is passion? I don’t exactly know. Is it a sort of drive to move forward? I don’t know that either. I don’t know how people can fall in love with their hobbies when I can’t even fall out of bed on my worst days. And yet, I know exactly what it feels like.

Passion. When you hear the word, you don’t just hear it. You feel it. The word itself carries a heavy tone to it. Passion. You say the word with “passion”. It’s not like fashion. But it’s more like “passion”. Okay so this might not have made much sense to most people. It made sense in my head but let’s move on.

I am a person that doesn’t have many hobbies. But let me also tell you, that there isn’t a thing that I haven’t tried. From singing, dancing, chess, sports, reading, writing, all genres of music, all genres of movies, animated, not animated, drawing, painting, history, politics, and you name it. And I have an idea of the general stuff covering all of that mentioned above. I know all of the sports both covered in winter and summer Olympics. A huge fan of Winter Olympics, and I was so disappointed when the Tokyo 2020 was postponed due to the pandemic. And I also like photography along with editing, and what else did I forget to mention? Okay so you can get a sketch of what I mean. I have tried mostly everything I could in these 17 years of life. In order to find that one thing I would fall in love with and never let go. I have to yet to fall in love. And I have already tried everything I could. But it’s not like they went in vain. I can at least never get bored because I’ll always have something to do.

What I mean to say is, I don’t understand passion. I see people fall in love with a single thing so easily. A friend of mine has been doing art since she was 5 or so. And she still does. She will keep doing it forever. Art is her friend that will always be there for her and never ever leave her side. I wonder if passion does that to you.

But hobbies are not the only things you can be passionate about. I know this personally, as I have something that drives me forward everyday. It won’t matter how bad things ever get. I won’t ever fall down and not get up. Because I am passionate. I’m passionate about living. And yes that is a passion.

I don’t have something that I’m passionate about. But I do live everyday even if things get so hard. My life has been harder than most people since I was born. It gets harder everyday too. As I realize what a mess of a life I had along with what a mess I could be. But I do live. I live everyday. And I won’t stop.

I’ll keep living. I’ll keep breathing. I’ll let this heart of mine keep beating. Because I’m passionate about moving forward. Because I know and I believe that things will get better. Because they did. I’m in a much better headspace now than I was two years ago. And I don’t think I can leave when so many people love me and need me. I will live. And I won’t just get through each day. I will live. I wont just exist merely as I did these 15 years. But instead I will live. Because I have a life. I have a life in my hands. Life of my own that I cant just let go. And so I’ll live. This speech wasn’t to demotivate those who don’t have things that they can love. It was to let you know that living means loving too. I am here to remind you, that you can love. You are capable of loving. And you do love. Because you are alive. You get out of bed everyday just because you have a heart that beats. And you love that heart. It doesn’t beat for anyone else nor for anything else but for you alone. So love yourself as you live for yourself. And I say it with a passion that I am passionate about living. I won’t be knocked down no matter what comes my way, because I’ve seen the worst and nothing will ever faze me ever again.

I end my speech with a poem I wrote as a tribute to those who were there for me when I needed them the most:

“You’re the only one who makes me smile so wide my eyes disappear
The one who lights up my world and wipes my tears
The ocean that I dive in willingly and keep diving and diving
Because I know in this ocean made of
you and me
Only I can’t breath
And I can’t fall asleep
Because you breath in
For me”

Thank you, for reading. And thank you for loving yourself. Because without all of you here, the earth would be lonely. There’s a reason we were born on this planet and not any other. So we need to live. Your life isn’t over until it really is over. Love yourself.