Trying to find passion with my life.

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Up until my freshman year of college, I was passionate about going to school. I was planning to start a career as a lawyer or professor when I graduated. Something happened my freshman year that disillusioned me from the whole process. I had two horrible roommates, made friends with the wrong people, and had a string of bad relationships. On top of this, I had a advisor that had never been in the law field, which by my second year I switched majors because of it for a while. I found it hard to be passionate about my same interests I had in my freshman year of college. The worse part of this, I have come to realize is that my parents raised me to be independent and an adult. When I got there, I felt I was kid again. I would ask questions about how I could get a job after graduating or going to grad school. Any official I talked to would give me the run around. This made me depressed for a little while, because I thought I was failure. I am beyond that.

I am not saying my whole college experience was bad, there was a lot of good parts. Such as the I took of the martial arts, which helped me get through the troubled parts in that part of my life. The problem I face is I cannot find passion in any work I do. I am starting to realize it came from that first year.

I have let most of these bad feelings go. The thing I am having a hard time is finding my passion? Any advice?

I don't know of how much help I can be, because to be honest, I have a similar problem. but if I had to give any advice, it would be to go out and join some clubs, do some new stuff and make some REAL friends. another, trusted set of eyes is never a bad thing. I have found in my life that your own problems, however inescapable or unsolvable they are to you, are like an open book to another person.

Thank you, I have done that since I got out of college and began to realize that. I come realize though that change happens through our own will. Its just I can't rekindle my passion for finding a career, which is starting to bug me a bit.

http://calnewport.com/blog/category/fea ... g-passion/
This is an interesting website which includes some articles on the subject of following your passion, and how that's not always the best policy long term, unless you have further plans too. He speaks about how you deal with that passion, and what you can do to avoid it fizzling out, like it has for you. This is just one of his articles on that - he has a whole series of them, all to help people who are struggling a bit. It's mainly aimed at college students.