Whenever I hear people talking about what they like to do, they always mention the word "passion" and how they want to figure out what theirs is.
Everyone speaks about passion as being one single thing you have to find in order for your life to become great. Once you find it, your passion will help you change everything. You'll be really good at that particular thing, you'll impress people, you'll be successful and so on.
But this kind of mentality made a bunch of other people think that they don't really have a passion, because they never found one thing they really liked. Some people never found anything to be interested in, while others like too many things.
I'm the second type of person. Whenever I find something I really like I realize really quickly that I also like other things. First, I started learning Photoshop and got into it a lot. Then I discovered video editing and fell in love with it. A little later I was sure that web design was my thing. After a few years, writing was what helped me buy the computer I so much wanted, and I knew that's what I wanted to do. Now I'm really into 3D modelling in Blender.
The fact that I don't like only one particular thing doesn't mean I'm not passionate about what I do. I still work in Photoshop whenever I have to, I still write every day, and I still know the basics of web design, enough to be able to use all kind of features on certain websites without having to spend too much time on Google searching for help.
Liking more than one thing and spending time learning everything is actually not bad at all. Getting really good at something is still a great way for you to achieve whatever you want, but if you're like me, if you get bored of things really fast and if you want to learn new stuff all the time, then that's fine too.
Passion is not about knowing and doing one single thing. Passion is about liking something. Today it may be one thing, tomorrow it may be another. As long as you have fun doing what you do, then everything else doesn't matter.
Right now I love 3D modelling, but in the future I may be interested in something else. Or who knows, maybe I'll find something related to what I do right now and I'll do both at the same time. Maybe that will be game development. If that's the case, then I'll have to learn a programming language as well, like C#.
You don't need to force yourself to like one single thing in order to get what you want. Focus on whatever you like and have fun.
"Everyone speaks about passion as being one single thing you have to find in order for your life to become great. Once you find it, your passion will help you change everything...."
"But this kind of mentality made a bunch of other people think that they don't really have a passion, because they never found one thing they really liked. "
Cannot but agree with this, I got hooked into this for some time, it was not pleasant feeling at all. Thanks for writing this peace, it consoled me a bit and ensured me that what I feel is right.
I was a bit frustrated that my friends and colleagues have their "single hobby" which they do to relax but I am quite similar person like you, I have many interests and I like to do different things. Doing the same thing bores me quite quickly, so I need several hobbies to feel inspired. But I know that other people are different, they like to do one leisure activity and get better and better at it such as wood crafting, plane modelling etc. I feel a bit like in our society uniqueness and the fact that people are different was not embraced in the right way. But I see that changing which is a good trend I think.
I also feel frustrated or jealous that some people are able to find one particular thing they like and keep doing that for a long time, getting better and better, while I learn little bits of everything all the time without actually mastering anything.
However, as you said, people are unique, and if you get bored focusing too much on one thing, then focusing on one hobby for too long won't help you achieve much, because you're not always gonna be in the mood to do something productive.
Society still thinks that becoming a master at something is the way to succeed, and while that has its benefits, knowing more things and being able to create a lot of stuff using all the knowledge you have is just as important and useful.
Until people get used to this and until they realize that being a jack of all trades is, in a lot of cases, as useful as being a master at something, we'll just have to constantly explain people that being interested in more than one thing is good and live feeling frustrated from time to time whenever we see someone chasing their one true passion.
Passion is not what you learn, it God gift to every man, it some times take time for one to discover his/her passion. And sometimes we do forget our passion cause of the influence of the society.