a friend said to me the other day that your passions/interests can be invited into 3 major categories:
1) ideas/issues you like to read about/know about/be able to talk about - but not necessarily be involved in
2) ideas/issues you want to be involved with in some capacity; on weekends, as something with which you complement your main interests; you wouldn't necessarily claim to be an expert at these or have them define you, but you enjoy and are fascinated by them
3) ideas/issues that become your main interest, that you create a career around, that you spend most of your "purpose time" pursuing; that you have to because they fascinate you more than anything else - the things that make you feel fulfilled and accomplished.
I think for me 1) includes post-colonial/diaspora literature, new technology... and 2) includes environmental sustainability, wine, dance... and 3) medicine/health, gender equality, and inter-cultural understanding (in not always a so intellectual-sounding way...)
what are yours? and what helps you decide what to put in each category?
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"You massage the Universe's spine when you twirl
through time leaving shadows on the Sun..."
-Saul Williams (from The Dead Emcee Scrolls...)
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