I have been thinking, what went wrong that in the process we tend to lose interest in what is so dearly of interest to us? Why the sudden change of interest. What could be the possible reasons why?

For someone like me, I had passions for so many things but yet they died off; I just seem to lose them. I have noticed some of my coursemates have even lost passion for the course they chose to study themselves. What is the mystery behind this loss of passion?

There are many reasons why, but I would be sharing a few that I think could pretty much be why people tend to lose passion for what they have; it affects everyone but not primarily students.

1. A Discouraging Environment: One of the pretty many factors that influence our growth is our environment. Do we have people around that motivate our ideas or do they only tend to discourage our ideas and passion? When we have a lot of people discouraging us from what we dream of, soonest or later we would have the same thought they put into us.

2. Not having a Circle: Having a Circle is a key factor aside from having a discouraging environment. What I mean is, if your environment is discouraging and you have a circle of people with similar or related passions, they may tend to help give us the motivating feeling your environment fails to give you. Trying to move around with people having similar passions helps one to develop and build ideas.

3. Not having a Plan: Asides from having a Passion, do you have a plan for building or executing it. Let me give a pretty example if you have a passion for web designing; What steps are you taking to build that passion? You can not leave yourself idle and not make any plans or steps towards what you want to do or else it would die off and you would lose interest in it for something else.

4 Not ready to put in the Sacrifice: To develop something new, we have to sacrifice our time for it. This means we would sacrifice the time we had for other things towards it. This is if you feel your passion is worth more than what you are already doing. If you feel so, then you should be ready to sacrifice towards building it.

To gain anything in life, there has to be a sacrifice because "Sacrifice yields Growth". You put in the sacrifice every day and it mostly includes your time, effort, and energy. If you don't do this, then your passion is at the doorstep of death.

These are pretty much what I have to say. Fill free to share your thoughts on other reasons why people lose their passion. I would love to know them and would appreciate them by curating your comments. Thank you!