Explore Your Passions
Is it fine wine? Watercolour painting? Dogs? Surfing? Do you even have a clue what your passion is? Perhaps you haven’t had the time to follow or even determine your passions. That’s about to change. A midlife crisis is a wonderful time to finally spend your time on activities that you truly enjoy.
Consider these significant differences between your purpose and your passions:
1. Your purpose is meaningful. Saving the environment is a purpose. Mastering racquetball is a passion. You build your life around a purpose. You plan your free time around a passion. That’s not to say that the topic of racquetball couldn’t be a purpose for a select few people.
2. Your passion is about your personal interests. A passion is something that interests you. It’s something that you enjoy. It doesn’t have to serve the greater good or take other people into consideration at all.
A passion can be 100% selfish.
Your passions might be skateboarding, cooking, and pistol shooting. It’s entirely up to you.
3. Passions can grow, wane, and change over time. A purpose tends to stick for a long time, even a lifetime. Passions can change over time. You might be obsessed with long-distance running for a few years and then suddenly decide to drop running from your life and switch over to creating a YouTube channel on dog training.
4. A passion is essentially a hobby. A passion is like a favourite hobby. It’s something you really like to do or study.
A midlife crisis can be the perfect time to explore your passions! Try these activities:
Remember your interests as a child
You had a lot of interests as a child that you never explored. Perhaps it wasn’t practical to take SCUBA lessons as an eight-year-old living in Kansas. Maybe your parents couldn’t afford a telescope. Surfing might have been out of the question, too. It might be a good time to reconsider some of those potential passions that you may have forgotten.
Make a list of topics that interest you
Return your attention to the present and consider your current interests.
What are you curious about?
What would you like to try?
What do your friends do that sounds interesting to you?
What makes you lose track of time?
We all have an activity or two that makes us lose track of time or forget to eat.
These are the activities that our brains love to do. They’re so interesting and rewarding that little else matters during the time we do them.
Consider the social factor
Maybe you want an activity you can do alone on your schedule without the hassle of dealing with others.
Or, maybe you’d prefer to spend time with others and make a few social connections. Keep the social factor in mind while evaluating your options.
Consider the financial costs.
A few hobbies are free or close to it. Most will require at least some expenditure of your hard-earned funds.
What training, equipment, and fees are involved? For example, backpacking requires equipment. Golf requires equipment, greens fees, and probably some instruction.
Unless you’re made out of money, there are some potential passions that might be out of reach and you want to consider a new stream of income.
The time required to engage in your passion.
Woodworking in the garage is flexible. Traveling 100 miles to the nearest rock-climbing crag requires a real investment of time.
Some activities can be done after work. Others are better suited to the weekend.
When do you want to engage in your passion? What days and times are convenient for you?
Try to do a little exploring
You wouldn’t just marry someone you haven’t met. You’d go on a few dates at least. Before jumping in with both feet, give a few of your options a try. Go watch a SCUBA class. Take a complimentary ballroom dancing class. Buy some cheap artist paints and try your hand at landscape painting.
Make a decision on an activity
Finally, which activity do you want to pursue?
What is your passion? Have you ever asked yourself? Do a little experiment and ask your friends what their passion is. You’re likely to get a lot of blank stares. However, you might get a few good ideas, too. A midlife crisis is a sign that you’re ready to have a hobby that you love. So, find it and pursue it.
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