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Talent is Not Enough




Talent is like a key and also like a diverse window of opportunities. Just because you have the key, doesn't mean you get to walk through the door and that is the tricky thing.
You could say, I have talent, I am what everyone wants but trust me it can never be enough. You have it doesn't mean other people don't and they could be more willing than you are.

Talent is like a plant, for it to grow you have to expose it to sunlight and feed it the required amount of nutrients it deserves. If you ignore that plant because you feel the plant is beautiful, rare  and for that, it can take care of itself, that plant will die and all you will be left with is the charred remains of what could be made beautiful.

Talent dies! Let that sink in!

There have been cases of promising men and women who started off well in their respective fields but their story is told in a once upon a time fashion, which means they once had it and now they don't.
Did it mean that they didn't have it at all? No. It only means that they actually thought it was enough and it was going to save them whenever they called on it. So they ignored it and it withered away.

Some reasons that can make you lose your talent:

Lack of practice
In other for a car to run, it needs fuel and if there is no fuel, no matter how beautiful the car is, it becomes useless. Your talent will mean nothing if you don't utilize it often so just like a car without fuel, it is useless.

Procrastination
You could be talented in singing, dancing, acting or drawing and there is a chance to put your work out there, but you keep promising yourself that you will take part in the next. Even if you are scared of rejection or maybe you feel you are not good enough, no one ever achieved anything by doing nothing. Always learn to put yourself out there, no matter what. Never be scared of a challenge, one day someone must notice what you carry.

 Lackadaisical attitude
Nothing ever achieved anything by remaining at particular spot. There can’t be help if you don’t help yourself first. Some people need to see the drive in you, the zeal, the game face of a fighter before they can help you. If you grow lazy your talent, no one will ever take notice.

Ignorance
This particular word has served as bliss to a lot of people. They prefer to grope in the dark than to walk into the light. Enrich yourself with knowledge of your proposed talent. Feed it, nurture it, groom it into something that is extraordinary. Just like you care for yourself, also care for your talent.

With a host of other reasons that can make you lose your talent, always note this at the back of your mind, your talent is like a golden compass, beautiful, shinny, lustrous but it will succumb to an unfavorable environmental condition if you refuse to walk in the direction it leads you to.


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