Dear Priscilla:

The title of your thread is “Finding your true passion“. In your original post you wrote: “I have tried to find what lights my fire“-

– It is natural for any young child, seeing her mother suffering, to feel a lot of empathy for her mother and to want to do anything and everything it takes to make her mother happy. It is a child’s first passion when her mother is unhappy.

I think that your original “true passion” (what would have light your fire as a child)- was to take away your mother’s suffering and to make her happy.  If all you could do was to “spend a lot of time with her”- that’s what you did. But if there was a tall, difficult mountain to climb to make her happy, you would have climbed that mountain.

Question is: did you give up on that original passion?

* I will be away from the computer for a while.

anita