The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling

Photo by C T Ong of Penang, Malaysia.

Point to Ponder: Anything that gets your blood racing is worth doing - Hunter S. Thompson

Story Line: Passion lives on even during self isolation as shown below. During last six months, many friends around the world shared some of their activities during the global crisis. Following are some of those:

1. Know your passion. Dream it. Live it: C T Ong is an Engineer working in semiconducor Industry in Penang, Malaysia. During his various business travels, after work hours, he used to follow his other passion; capturing images of places and people. Following two exhibits are some of the marvelous images captured by his lens in his local area during this self isolaton period.

2. When one loves what he does, it is no longer work, it becomes a way of life: Nimish Vyas is a research biologist from Maryland. From childhood he had passion for birds and related ecosystem. He followed that throughout his life; degree, job. During his business trips he spent time in the plane rides drawing pictures of birds. He has continued that passion during the stay@home period.  

3. Follow Your Passion:Photos of unique flowers taken by Lee Min Chong of California, Gordon Ching of Hawaii and Yan Bee Lim of Malaysia.

4. Discover your passion: Wonderful images captured during travels by Nanseng Jeng of Washington, Boon Seng Tan from Oregon, Kim Ocampo from California and Dipankar Bose of Sunnyvale, California.

5. Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion: Mini Vegetable farm of Dave and Analisa Hightower of California and mini fruit orchard of Luisa and Anand Shah.

Fruits of Passion

6. Passion for Nature: Photos from gardens by: Kim Foong Chong Malaysia, Lee Min Chong California, Sharvary Trivedi London, Luisa Shah, Birds enjoying bath by Thad Gardner Oregon and Stunning roses Alankar Naik from North Carolina. 

7. Stunning colors amidst smoke: Photos of noon and evening sun by Anand, Majestic tree by Neil Simpson, Golden Sky over the house by Ray Pineda in California and very smoky Oregon by Mike Goodner.

8. Finding the right work is discovering your own soul in the universe: Childhood love has continued for: writing and acting continues for Rajiv Shah, love for singing  continues for Namrata Shodhan and Hetal Raval of Ahmedabad India and Paintings for Shweta Parikh of Ahmedabad India.

Reflection: Even during this Pandemic, People have continued with or discovered their Passion. And Passion leads one to his/her purpose.