Do we all have talents?
Or, are some particularly talented?
Talent shows and competitions seem to say that talent is a specialized capacity, developed beyond normal proportions and achieving spectacular results.
Have you been driven to believe that such talent is a rare phenomenon, not to be aspired by all?
It’s then time to take another look at talent.
Each person has the capacity to do something well, and that is his/her talent.
If someone sings well, that’s a talent; yet no less is the talent to love freely, empathise, or cook a wonderful meal.
In this mechanistic world, only the proven talents are rewarded.
Yet talent is its own reward.
The reason why most are frustrated with the work arena and stuck in mediocrity is the lack of attention to talent.
Talent often remains hidden; as people try to fit into standard patterns of conduct and fit into the fixed grooves.
If you want to enjoy a beautiful life, step back, and explore your talent.
By any means, take your time to arrive at the right answers, for your talent must be lying buried deep under the everyday mechanical existence.
Pan over the memories of childhood interests – of hobbies pursued till the point when the burden of making a living robbed the very life out of you.
For therein you will discover your talent, what you do well, what is unique and special in you.
And then it’s but a labour of love to unleash the full potential of your talent.
If you have so far been negligent of your talents, it may not be wise to drastically dive headlong into its exclusive pursuit. You can reclaim it little by little, till you hone your talent sufficiently to abide by it solely.
And then, all that remains is to win over the world.
Because, when you are working on your talents, there is no work or play – all work and play subsume into each other to propel you into uncharted regions of success.
I am lucky to have recognised my talent for teaching, early on in my career.
But I can recount many cases where things went awry as people failed to recognise and develop their talents; and proceeded in quite an opposing direction leading to life-long conflict.
Today a first-class degree holder friend of mine in the difficult field of engineering, is battling a jobless, hapless and hopeless condition: as he failed to recognise that his true talent was in writing.
Most people get derailed from pursuing or even uncovering their talents as they allow themselves to succumb to popular straitjacket patterns. Young people are coerced to run after the most money-making pursuits, ignoring the despondency and derangement that follows from the drudgery of life led simply as a money-making machine!
Wearing out body and spirit day in and day out over a bigger bank balance cannot be more satisfying than having work and rest amalgamated in a beatific pattern.
Follow your heart, my dear friends, and that talent in you will unleash for you a life of dazzling dreams.