Second article of the series “NOTES FROM THE NSAWAM STREET”
this series of articles is about having flashbacks and using them positively, I
remember we use to go to 7 times a week instead of the normal 5 times which is
5 days, my school was called “nsawam university”, I loved my school, Nana Osae
Djan School was and is a good school by all standards we were going to school
as if schooling was a cult and a religion we practiced just because my friends
and I thought school was all, forgetting that school was not education. Education is the process of
facilitating learning and inspiring our minds not filling our heads and pouring
it on exams sheets and not following our passion but certificates! This article
is not about the system, I don’t have to write about it for us to know there is
problem with our system, this article is
about passion, dividing it for your own good.
Yes, we can divide our
passion
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, a wrong
that you want to right. If you are not passionate from the start you will never
stick it out” this is lovely quote from someone who was passionate enough to
change the world of computing and several industries, Steve Jobs, co-founder of
apple.
What is divided passions?
This is simply having more than one thing you love to do and
chasing them at once, someone as me “so Ikay you do everything in technology,
from ui/ux designs to programming to blogging to online marketing are you a
jack of all trades?” Then these words from my gradma kept ringing in my head; “
jack of trades is a master of none” So I felt cold and I replied “ I just love
computers” I sat down I created my own
term called “divided passions, I told know if my meaning if same as what I saw
when I googled it. I think divided passion if having a strong passion and under
that same passion you have passions. One big tree with branches.
You can also have different main passions,
I have love for
computers and music, art and writing. This is where the thing gets interesting
and very fascinating, when something like this happen to you do not know what
to do since the dot will not connect easily for you to win, what you would have
to do is to intersect the passions to create a great dream, a personal example
is computers/internet and writing, I like using a the internet and I like
writing what is on my mind so I started blogging not earn anything but to push
my passion, I have a friend whose mom is a seamstress and she loved modeling
and selling stuff online, she created a
website and wore some of the clothes by
her mom, took picture, uploaded them and she started selling online.
Sometimes our passions look crazy especially when your
passion is not the usual teaching, law, medicine, the known jobs or stuff we
all use to fancy 10 years ago, or its more of love than money, passions like
modelling, photography, drawing, being a musician are really cool put it really
don’t pay in our part of the world and you may be discouraged as soon as you
mention them to your parents or even friends but just don’t the noise of other
people, drawn out your inner voice, listen to your heart, sleep less and dream
big, passion is all we got.
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