Curls at Last

”Follow your bliss. That which you love, you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow. The sooner you identify that bliss, which surely resides in the soul of most human beings, the greater your chance of a successful life.’’

~George Lois

As children, our imaginations entertain us with the numerous roles we aspire to become when we are ‘big enough’. From doctors, to vets, designers, to models – we knew exactly what we wanted to be when we grew up. Sure enough, the years pass by; we become older and less naive to the world around us. In doing so, our dreams begin to fade as we realise that it is going to take a little longer and involve more work than we originally thought to reach our goals. We identified our idea of bliss - then let it slip away.

As an Undergrad whom is closely approaching the end of my schooling years, I have been inundated with the advice of those who have previously walked my path, but somehow lost the ticket to their dreams. With the need to survive as well as chasing their goals, working at a ‘temporary’ job is the obvious solution, but what happens when that ‘temporary’ job becomes permanent and you begin to lose sight of your passion?


As cultural provocateur and advertising guru, George Lois, highlights in the quote above; the sooner we identify what bliss means to us, the better the chance we have at achieving success. Even though you may have lost sight of your dreams; they are still there, waiting for you to re-ignite them. Everyone has that one passion that they would give anything to spend the rest of their life doing. Everyone has that something which makes them happy. The trouble is; some of us deny ourselves the chance to make a life out of what we are passionate about…ending up in a place that we do not want to be.

Sometimes we make too many excuses or come up with a thousand reasons why we cannot do something, giving up the fight for what we really want. It is never too late to start believing that you can achieve success and more importantly… 

Follow your bliss.