Do something you love

“Do something you love”
     I hear that all the time. But the problem with it is that for a long time I was ill-informed and misunderstand what does it mean. 
     First off what is love? Second how do I find what I love? Third how do I identify and visualize if I love something? Frankly speaking, “what I love” is basically telling me nothing. So how do we start figuring out what we love? Let’s start off small,let’s attack one of the biggest questions of our lives: how do you define love? 
"Love is the desire to have something forever."That’s a horrible definition of love. That’s literally meaningless,” Love is so much more than that. It’s a deep intensified passion, an incurable madness, it’s poetry of the soul. But clarify what does it mean to say you love something? What does it mean to say you love a person? To exemplify, it means you want that thing or that person in your life forever. No matter what happens. No matter if things get tough, if the relationship goes sour, in good times and bad, monotonous. When people say love is crazy this is what they mean: you’re willing to sacrifice your happiness, your sanity, your very soul for someone or something else. Love is becoming a part of something bigger than yourself. That’s why it’s one of the most beautiful and noble things a person can do.

     Now that we know what love is, the next question to identify is how do we find it? Most of us do what any self-respecting Ukrainian would do when faced with a question like this. I mean we can’t just sit around waiting for love, we have to go find it ourselves. The problem is this: it doesn’t work. Why? Because the stakes for every interaction are too high. If you’re actively searching for that activity you love, for something or someone you’re passionate about, then you’re constantly asking yourself: “Do I love this?” 

     To finalize love is very often not something that you feel immediate passion for. Love doesn’t start out as a hurricane that sweeps through your life and changes everything in an instant. It starts out as a seed. Barely alive, easily overlooked, fragile and small. But given attention love grows. Given proper care it sprouts and springs up through the dirt. Given enough care the thing that you love becomes the lens through which you see the world. The same happens with an activity which you love, so remember everything starts from the small and only you have an opportunity to decide if this is what you love.