accenting life: passion

My passion point has always been to be creative and to create.

I remembered my very first memory of my passion point occurred when I was ten. Immediately after our relocation from our home country to the US, our new country, I held onto the coloring book that United Airline had given us children to occupy our time during the very long flight. We had very little then, so this was one of my few material possession at the time. Having had filled up all of the pages with colors, there was nothing left to do with the book. Instead of throwing it into the trash, I reinvented uses for it. I used the pictures on those pages and copied them, redrew them onto blank sheets. That was my way of entertaining myself, and I found out I was good at it. I was good at drawing, capable of redrawing the images in its likeness onto another sheet of paper.

And so, many more days after that was spent getting lost in being creative and creating images onto blank sheets of paper.

I was lucky enough to recognize my passion point early on and have spent much of my time honing that passion, and consequently, led a fairly happy life because of that capability. As I grew, my craft expanded beyond drawing into painting and crafting, and lately, photographing. And while I had made a choice to choose my career outside of my passion point, purely for practical reasons, I have never given up on my passion completely, although the time available for it greatly diminished.

And as my passion grew, so does the complexity of my craft, resulting in larger investments in the equipments to support that passion. They are expensive, and weighing the cost and benefit of those investments is a constant battle. Sometimes, purchasing a card from the drug store is much cheaper than making one, purely speaking from a material standpoint not accounting for the time and effort it takes to design and create an original card.

But I continue to shell out the money, to the extent that we are able to afford it, and continue to create. The adrenaline and pride of seeing the finish product continues to be sufficient payment, and until it no longer is, I will continue to invest.

As my daughter grows and her curiosity of the world surrounding her grew, I am now the one responsible for shaping her mind. One thing is for sure, I want her to find passion in creating, to be in awe of the product of her own creation. Should she outgrow it one day, I'd be okay with it. Should she want to devote her whole life to it, I'd be supportive. But for now in these few short years, we will create.