Be Passionate About Your Purpose...

This week during my Community Council meeting, one of my peer student government leaders came up to me with a most startling question: "How is it that you do everything that you do and still manage to stay alive?". "Stay alive!?" I thought, "What does that even mean?". At first I just kind of smiled at her and laughed a little but she was committed on getting an answer out of me so I actually had to think...

She wanted to know how she too could juggle schoolwork while being involved in the community and in different organizations at the same time. I gave her a textbook answer: you have to have good time management skills, be sure to plot out times for studying and times for doing work outside of schoolwork, and don't put in your mouth more than you can chew! She seemed unconvinced but took my answer just the same and went on her way- but now this started to bother me. I started thinking about the question she had asked me and this time wondered how I really was alive.

Every second of my day is planned and mapped out, but then again my busy hectic schedule is what keeps me going. Although time management skills are very important that was not the reason I was able to juggle all my responsibilities in and outside of school. Then all of a sudden an anvil fell on my head and it hit me. The answer was in an article I wrote just a little while back about passion and purpose working hand in hand. I am able to do everything I am doing because of passion.

The only reason I am able to meet deadlines, go to meetings, go to class, and meet all my responsibilities is because I am extremely passionate about every single thing I do. I am in HCC because I am passionate about my community, I go to my classes because I am passionate about one day becoming a doctor, I am a leader because I am passionate about bringing the leader out in others and helping people get heard. It was just as simple as that. So the answer is Passion.

-Nuzhat