You know when you love doing something (let’s call it A) and you get the chance to do it, you experiment some sort of joy.
When you also love doing something else that at first sight does not appear to be related to A (let’s call it B) you experience another type of joy.
And then when one day, out of luck or after a visit from your muses, you find a way to connect both things: A & B , the joy you feel is magnified and it is just pure and simple awesomeness…
I’ll stop here to ask if you have gotten any examples of your own life, because if you have not, then I guess this all sounds sort of nonsensical… (If you do have any, please share it in the comments and tag me!). And I will then continue to share my own case.
My case
I communicate, since childhood I have loved doing so. As you can imagine by reading my posts I can tell stories for hours and in any group in which I feel comfortable, I can be easily spotted as the one that is always asking questions and talking. Quite recently I was able to do connect two of my passions and I was so happy I almost jumped out of my chair. Here’s the story: since 2011 I own a website: https://quemashago.com/ it started as my way to promote in my country (Dominican Republic) opportunities I found when I was living in Spain: there I was able to learn about new exhibits, concerts, theatre plays and much more by just visiting a few websites. The name, in Spanish, translates to "what else can I do? and it tries to answer that precise question. After I came back home from that abroad time and I started traveling in my own country, the website started to include recommendations, but I had never been able to add a map. That, of course, until just now .
After a web redesign, a few days ago I discovered how to add maps into my articles and, as a consequence I found a new way to give life to many of the lists I had done in Google Maps and, at the same time, make my pieces much more useful! Now I can write about basically everything and guide, Maps links in hand, a bunch of unknown people who are asking Google the same questions I could be asking myself and tho which I already have answers.
I was so excited because it felt like I was finally able to connect my passion to communicate with the one of being a Local Guide, of providing answers in advance to those geo-located questions. And it felt so good, I wanted to come and share it with this beloved community to see if you have been able to do connect two passions, in your own context.
Yes, I do know that there are some popular cases like @ErmesT who connected his passion of environmental issues with the one as a Local Guide through the “Local Guides Clean The Map” initiative, but I’m sure that there are many more less popular cases, and I would love to read from them…
I want to see, basically, if it is common to find ways of connecting the passion of being a Local Guide, with any other sort of passion in your life or if these are just exceptional cases. If it is common, I would like to learn in which fields has it happened and how it felt.
I’m all eyes, in case you want to share your point of view here .