What Happened to Passion?

If you were told how to live your life. If you were told to get your priorities straight. If you were told exactly the do's and do not's of your life by someone so close to you; of course you would believe them because you honor their opinion. Does that mean they're always right? Well, they better not be, because if they were, we would all end up common people, with common jobs, living common lives. With crushed dreams, hopes, and aspirations. We are all born with the potential to be great in this life, but along this road we tend to lose sight of that glorious great-ness with the trials and turns life has for us. The passion and innocence we are all blessed with at birth...dies. Due to the stong social glamour and gossip. Essentially beating us down to the point of one of two "sentences:" destruction or failure. When we fail, we tend to give up on who we use to be and find that it becomes so tedious after the one thousandth time, we decide it would be easier to not even try, and that is what makes people common. It may seem a little confusing. But I'll put it in perspecitive. I, was once told, by someone whom I respected to the fullest extent that my priorities were out of order, and that there was no way I would ever accomplish what was on my list of "important" things. NOT because I wasn't talented enough and couldn't do so, but because I wasn't doing what this certain "mentor" wanted me to do. At and in the moment I thought it was because this person thought I wasn't capable of being who I wanted to be, but I had to stop and breathe (in through the nose, out through the mouth) and realize that he wasn't talking about me he was talking about himself. He had never tried and never made it. So somehow because he didn't make it neither would I. It's a neverending cycle we all must break, and it must be broken sooner rather than later. Grasp on to the passionate artist within you and run. Stop to think and breathe and remember you can be anything and anyone you can picture yourself being. Never let words destroy that. Never let yourself become common. Wise words were once spoken: "Never live your life wondering 'what if,' always live your life telling yourself now, 'I know.'"