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Joan Jett once confessed: “I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don’t know.” These words, though spoken with simplicity, echo with the timeless longing of the human heart: the desire to bring unity out of many passions, and to weave one’s loves into a single purpose. It is not confusion that speaks here, but honesty—the humility to admit that the path of life is not always clear, even when the heart burns with many fires.

At the heart of her saying lies the truth that human beings are not born with a single love. We are complex, with passions that reach into different corners of creation. To love sports is to honor discipline and competition; to love animals is to cherish innocence and the natural world; to love kids is to protect the future of humankind. And to long to save the world is the most ancient cry of all—the heroic impulse to leave the earth better than we found it. Joan Jett reveals the struggle of one who loves deeply, but wonders how to unite these loves into a single, mighty calling.

The ancients, too, faced such dilemmas. Consider the story of Leonardo da Vinci, though he lived long after Greece and Rome. He was a painter, an engineer, a scientist, and a dreamer. Many mocked him, saying he scattered his talents and never finished enough. Yet his very multiplicity of passions is what made him eternal. He combined love of art with love of knowledge, love of nature with love of invention. Though he may not have “saved the world,” his works still illuminate it centuries later. His life teaches us that sometimes the unity of passion is not found in a single act, but in the fullness of a life well-lived.

Joan Jett’s words also remind us that it is no weakness to say “I don’t know.” The ancients honored such humility. Socrates himself proclaimed that wisdom begins in knowing that one does not know. The admission opens the door to discovery. By saying “I don’t know,” Jett does not surrender her vision—she acknowledges the journey ahead. In this way, her words are not despair but courage: the willingness to walk forward without yet seeing the full map.

In truth, many who changed the world began with many loves. Jane Goodall, who adored both animals and children, combined her passions by dedicating her life to the study of chimpanzees while also founding programs for youth to carry on the work of conservation. She found a way to tie her loves into a single strand, and through patience and persistence, she answered the very question Jett raises. Her story reveals that the challenge of combining passions is not solved in a day, but in the living of one’s years with courage and commitment.

The lesson here is this: do not fear the vastness of your heart. If you love many things, let them all have their place. Do not think you must abandon one to serve another. Instead, let time reveal the threads that bind them. For often, the path to greatness is not a straight road but a weaving of loves into something new. Where once there seemed to be no union, life itself may forge harmony.

So let us take action. Embrace your many passions—whether they be for sports, for animals, for children, or for the healing of the world. Do not be paralyzed by the thought of combining them perfectly. Instead, serve each with integrity, and watch as life draws them together in unexpected ways. Begin with small acts: volunteer, protect, teach, inspire. The harmony will come. For the world is not saved by those who love little, but by those whose hearts are wide enough to hold multitudes.

Thus, Joan Jett’s words, though uncertain, are a torch passed to us: a reminder that it is not wrong to love much, nor wrong to not yet know the “how.” The path of life is discovery, and those who walk it with passion, humility, and courage will, in their own way, find the unity of their loves—and through that unity, help to save the world.