Thanks for sharing your perspective on changing passions. It’s interesting that you reconnected with yours through struggle. That doesn’t give me much hope either!

I guess I’ll have to try to enjoy this circuitous half empty quest…

Also, I think that passions can change. Sure, there may be one or two overarching themes in a person’s life, about what their talents and interests are. But you can also have smaller passions that change with the seasons of life.

Right now, writing poetry is my passion. It feels like it will be life-long, because it was something I loved as a child, too—right up through college. So it feels like returning to something that’s very much myself. But I hesitate to make any big claims, because I’ve seen myself change, and who knows? Maybe I will go back to being passionate about painting. And coming back to poetry happened BECAUSE OF struggle. I had several intensely difficult years, with three very young kids and a chronic health problem. So I needed a pressure valve.

I absolutely agree with you that the Quest is lifelong. Perhaps one of the keys to it is finding a way to enjoy the actual questing, so as to take pleasure in it even though there’s still the discomfort of not having arrived at a “destination.”