What is your Passion?

What is your Passion?
I came across with this question a lot of times..

Every person should know what their passion is. For some it takes a long time to discover what it is. On this context, Parents I guess play the crucial role on finding it.      ( though I am not yet a parent ) When a child is growing up it is important for parents to expose their children in to different kinds of activities that will eventually interests their kids and will result to their passion.

I always admire people whose passion becomes their profession. Lucky are they. One of the luckiest people I ever know who found passion as His profession is my Father. I grew up watching him enjoying cultivating a land. Aside from rubber trees ( which is the main crop of my town ) He likes planting crops, may it be a fruit a vegetable, literally everything that grows.  Around High School, I remember asking him why he likes to be a farmer and He said I guess I found this interest from my Uncle. When I was a kid and my father died ( this was how my Papa narrates on me ) I had the chance to stay in their house and live with them for a while. I noticed, He wakes up as early as 4am to go to farm, by sunrise He’s had his siesta already. And I asked why do you always get up so early? And Uncle would answer me. It is always good to wake up early while most people are still sleeping that way I am ahead of them.  Land is good, there is wealth in every Land, only if you are willing to plant and sweat but if not it’s nothing. Take for example this one plant of banana this will produce 20 bunches, if a bunch costs 50cents  ( that was around 1960’s ) you will get 10 pesos already. So what if you have 50 plants of Bananas. It’s a big money already Carlito. So, from there my father looked up to his Uncle while He was growing up. He was a very good agriculturist he says. And I think I would agree. He was once an endorser of a Pesticide on TV! J

Growing up in a community where white- collared jobs were assumed as the best jobs, I honestly didn’t feel so proud then of what my father’s way on making our living. I feel like He can do something more of what he can aside from being a farmer. But then it came to me that for my father Farming is not just his way of making our living. It is his passion, his life, he was born for it. He always tells me that he find God’s manifestation of His mighty and wonder in every living creature especially in plants. To this day, He never stop planting and looking after his plants which made him still sooooo very productive even in his old age. He is a philanthropist to Sustainable Farming and with all his capabilities and his limited strength he still finding ways to continue being so. J