My passion.

I learned a lot of things, almost to the extent that I was overwhelmed by it all but it was worth every minute. I’ve never been told to fully embrace my passion and/or dream of working with or running my own non profit organization. Now I feel as if I can if I continue with passion and pursue with that same passion. One of the main things that first stuck out to me was the question, what do I desire? It made me really analyze what I want to do and what I will do to achieve it. The second lesson I found most valuable was “get out of your comfort zone.” I have always been a shy person and many times thinking to myself I couldn’t amount to anything. But the truth is I can and everyone can but we must get out of our comfort zones and take chances. And the last is, “it all begins with the first step.” If we sit around and keep thinking what I can do to make a difference rather than acting we will never take the first step. Also, to really think what that first step feels like, to know we are finally taking one step closer to our passion/dreams. 

Social innovation has always been my dream but I’ve never known how to accomplish it at such a young age. I felt trapped but at the same time not finding any interest in my previous majors. After switching my major a few times I stuck with Sociology because I do find passion in it but I also had the opportunity to hear about this class and my passion grew even stronger. With Jeffery A. Thompson’s question “What is your calling in life? If you don’t know yet, how will you find out?” I know that my passion is service and the fact that we can all make a difference in the world. The famous quote by Ghandi, “be the change you wish to see in the world” has always been my motto my go to inspiration whenever I feel small. I don’t exactly know what my calling is but I know that it involves social innovation, I know that involves me finding a way to make a difference and I’m willing to do whatever is necessary to find out what that calling might be. 

For me, I believe that the question “how do you fit into the world of social innovation” is a better question then “how do you want to fit into the world of social innovation.” Because we can’t just wait and hope that we can fit into our passions but we must be willing to do the necessary to actually fit into that world. Just like the 4 P’s in the Jeff Sheets video passion, pursue, persistence, and patience. We can’t go about our dreams in a passive aggressive manner because we may never reach them but be unhappily content with what we have now. Desire+Passion=Seek We must seek.