Find what makes you come alive.

                Find your thing. Allow yourself to care about it more than you've ever cared about anything else and more than you ever will care about anything else. Think about it constantly. Walking down the street, before you go to sleep, driving on the freeway, sitting in a classroom. Learn about every aspect of it. Be completely enamored with it. Obsess over it. Don't fear how other people will or do feel about it. Dream about it. Realize there are endless possibilities with it. Work hard for it. Never give up on it. If it makes you come alive, it is more valuable than all of the money you will ever earn. Don't let financial gain or power be the main motive for you doing it. They will suffocate you, and turn it from something beautiful into something filled with greed. They will turn it into something ugly. If you have this, it's special. Don't forget that. Many people search for what makes them come alive, desperately. Anyone can bullshit to get ahead, step on people and manipulate them to make their way to the top. Finding your passion is something completely different. Caring about something more than yourself is a rarity. If you care about something enough, and are willing to work for it; you can make a life out of it. Don't let the pressures of reality constrain your dreams before you even try. Try. Fail. Try. Feel like you aren't going anywhere. Feel sad. Feel desperate. Try. Feel revitalized again. Keep believing in what you're doing. Keep doing what you're doing.
                We think that the only things in this life that are important are the ones that can end in income, but that's the furthest from the truth. We think that the things that make us come alive can't end up supporting us. Both monetarily and more importantly-emotionally. Some people also think they haven't found their "thing" or what makes them come alive. If you have existed on this earth, you have found something to care about. You have found something to make you feel a certain kind of good you can't name. Whether it be constantly searching for new music, giving your friends advice, traveling, making jewelry, pop-culture, surfing; whatever it may be, don't write it off. Really think about the things that you don't put pressure on, don't do to impress people, don't do for financial gain; think about what you do just because. Let those things matter. You don't even have to try to make a career out of them, just enjoy them. Remember that you have them. In your darkest moments, those are the things that will help you maintain your sanity and stay connected to who you are.
                Talent is important, but a fire guided by the desire for happiness and fulfillment, as opposed to money, stability, and envy, shouldn't be taken for granted. That is a fire that doesn't come around often. Take care of it.
               You aren't buried with your millions and your penthouses. Regardless of who you are, what won't be buried will be a legacy. What won't be buried will be the imprint you made. Think about what you'd like for that that to be.