For me personally Passions are something i haven’t really put much thought about, but when presented with this prompt on what are my 3 Passions it truly brought some questions to reflect on what are somethings i feel quite strongly about. Which for myself has to be Sports (Specifically Soccer), Chess/cards, Improvement.
As for sports, i enjoy playing a wide variety of sports like badminton, Ping-Pong, Tennis a bit. However, for me personally Soccer was something i had grew up playing, as i am from El Salvador and over there almost everyone plays soccer its almost embedded into our culture. So soccer with my brothers and bunch of street kids in El Salvador would be the absolute joy to play since i was little. That even extends to watching other teams play as my family has been a Massive fans of Real Madrid since almost forever, and that helped me grow the love of the game and has been something I constantly play any chance i get to with friends, family, and anyone who is down to play.
As for my second passion being chess/cards, i absolutely love these 2 games, growing up me and my cousins would buy a pack of cards anywhere we had the chance and we would always sit down and would play for hours Blackjack, Uno, 31, and bunch of other card games we got the chance to play. But playing cards in general has been a method i have meet loads of people just sitting down and play a good game of cards. As for Chess, I absolutely love the complexity of the game (Although that might sound strange in retrospective) it was a game that i spend loads of hours in High school playing with random people, Friends, and we would even get teachers involved in a simple game of chess. Chess was something i practiced a lot because i was absolute trash at the game. I would practice until i got somewhat decent at the game and it became a habit of playing the game even today. I am always down for a good game of chess or cards if anyone is down.
My last passion of Improvement was something i guess i picked up during high school as i would constantly torture myself with like Ap or honor classes and i would constantly have friends who were in the same boat as me of taking these classes and we would compete between ourself to constantly improve in these dang hard classes (That sounds crazy looking back on this LOL). It was that constant motivation of others and my personal self as well that pushed me to improve at every challenge that i faced and its that constant reminder/ mentality that moves that passion of improvement.
This prompt of talking about 3 passions i have was an interesting reflection on somethings i have a dedicated passion for.
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It is so cool to find someone else that loves card games too. I feel like so many people forget that there are endless amounts of games to play with a single deck of cards. I have recently been fixated on Blackjack and Solitaire and spend most of my time playing that. Also, I recently learned a new game called Egyptian Rat Screw, I am not sure if you know it, but it is super fun to play with someone if you’re bored.