What did you want to be when you grew up?

The earliest answer I can find to the question “what do you want to be when you grow up” is
from when I was in kindergarten and had just received my first microscope. I wanted to know all about
everything, so I wanted to be a scientist. This thought continued until my next birthday, when I got a
chemistry kit, then I wanted to be a chemist specifically.

Passion is a strong desire and drive, almost a need, to do, have or be something. Passion can be
overpowering and cloud other things out of your life, or it can expand on those same things.

As a child, my passion was to know, learn, experience. As an adult, my passion has changed less than it
has shifted direction. The hard sciences are no longer where I see the most knowledge and learning, it is
the computer sciences and computers in general. With my depression, passion is hard to feel any longer,
and is usually placed on the least favorable objects of attention, but it is still there, driving my thoughts
and altering my perceptions of things.

Cal Newport (RETURN TO THE READING) describes passion as an evolving thing. A desire for fulfillment
that, despite societal pressure, is not a set, preexisting thing. There is no one passion or desire in the
majority of people’s lives that will make them happy or, as is the case in his paper, find them the perfect
job.