“I cut school to read Shakespeare and to learn about that because, for the first time, I felt like I really discovered a passion - the passion of my life.”

Meaning

This is about an early, almost urgent encounter with vocation. It can be read as a memory of breaking rules because something on the page felt larger than school itself, and as the moment a true interest became a life direction. It lands when someone looks back on the first time a subject, book, or art form felt less like homework and more like destiny.

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Originally said in English.

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