suffer on it;s worth it

Many people have the illusion that people who are passionate about their line of work are happy campers that have found Nirvana. They just look so happy when they are working and boy must it be nice to be full of joy all day long. They forget that one of the definitions of passion is to suffer for what you love. People that love what they do, do not settle for mediocrity or doing a pretty good job. People that love what they do want to be great at it and to be great at what you love you have to suffer. It becomes an obsession that is on your mind all the time. You are always thinking of ways to improve. Trust me you work much harder when you do what you love then you ever do just doing a mundane job.

While the brutal reality is that you will suffer in order to be great at what you love, the key point that distinguishes it from doing a mundane job just to get by; is that it is work that you actually want to do. This is a critical distinction as work that you actually want to do is gratifying and fulfilling. Work that you do just to get by may pay the bills is never gratifying or fulfilling. Now I am not knocking anyone that works. You do what you have to do in life to survive and I have respect for anyone that is willing to work hard to make an honest living rather than be a vampire living off the misguided generosity of others. However, the fact remains the same. If you do not love what you do, you suffer twice. You suffer while you do it and you suffer from the lack of fulfillment. If you do what you love you only suffer once. You suffer when you put in the necessary concerted work to be great but have the incredible sense of fulfillment that only doing what you love for a living can provide.