what are you passionate about?

In today's day and age, the normal thing to do after graduating from college is to either find a job in what you majored in (or somewhat related to what you majored in) so that you can start your career or go to graduate school and get a Master's degree. Rarely is there passion in wanting to pursue either of those two (or somewhere along the way, that passion is lost).

Having been out of school for almost a year and having recently accepted a job offer, one of my biggest worries, now, is that I'll become someone who has lost focus of what my passions are. When I graduated in June 2012, all I remember thinking was that my next step was to get a job within a couple months of graduation and then maybe go back to graduate school a couple years after that. Of course, things didn't go as planned. I found myself having been graduated for over 4 months and jobless with my parents hovering over me with the plans that they had for me: "You should be job searching and preparing to take GREs so that you can apply to Graduate School at the same time. You need to have a backup plan."

Of course, getting pressure from my parents and the people around me on top of the pressure that I had on myself, things started to feel hopeless. What was I going to do with my life? Am I going to be jobless forever? When is this feeling of hopelessness ever going to go away? What am I even passionate about? Do I want to do Civil Engineering even? All these questions and doubts started popping up in my head and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. I didn't have any answers (which only led to more frustration).

Now that it has been almost of year since I graduated, I want to say that one of the best advice I got was when someone told me: Enjoy the time that you have now while you don't have a job because you WILL get a job. And when you do get a job, there are going to be so many things you wish you did while you didn't have a job.

Also, having walked with some of my friends through this post-grad stage, I admire how some of them have pursued what their passions are. They've worked part-time at restaurants because they want to pursue a career in the food industry instead of an office job. They've picked up and moved to another country because they wanted to experience a different culture. They've quit their current full-time job so that they can be an intern somewhere else to pursue a completely different path. They took all these risks so that they could do what they were passionate about.  A year ago, I probably would have thought that they were crazy, but now, I know that they aren't. They may defy the norm of society but I know that they are all much happier doing what they enjoy and love.

What are you passionate about? Are you pursuing and fighting to do what you love?

<sorry if there are any typos or grammatical errors. it's late...haha goodnight!>