IN A MEMORY

TALENTS AND ABILITIES

TALENTS AND ABILITIES
These are two words that always confuse people and while soul searching they do not know whether what they find is a talent or ability.
According to quora (blog), the ability is the possession of a skill or the means to make something happen, either or both of which are acquired while talent is the natural aptitude to perform a task. With the ability, we go through a learning process to get it. Talents are born but can be perfected through learning or not. With talent, there is no choice whether we want it or not it can never be taken from you only ignored.
Talents can be suppressed and only come to discover at a stage in our life. Some of us can even reach adulthood without discovering them. We can be the ones to discover them or someone else can do it for us. Even though it is not a choice to acquire them, it is always our choice if we want to nature them or not. Sometimes we look so hard for our talent without realizing we have known it all along. We try every activity we are interested in just to find out what our talent is. Discovering our talents can take a process of trial and error and sometimes we even face disappointments in ourselves. some people know their talents from a tender age. After discovering what our talents are, we can choose to use them to our advantage and that of others who need them or we can choose to suppress them and act like it is not a part of us. When we mature, we can come to understand in our journey it was what we needed all along to achieve what we wanted or become who we dream and work hard to be. It can be our helper to escape the turmoil in our lives and our hearts.
When I expressed in the previous paragraph our journey to discovering talents and how we try every activity we are interested in, I should have also said that what we are interested in most is our talent. We just take a while to realize that which is okay. Everyone has a path that they will use to get to where they are meant to be. It may not always seem so but with time we come to understand why it had to happen and how it happened. Unfortunately, what we are interested in cannot be achieved by our talents. This becomes complicated when what you aim to do does not give inner peace as your talent. You are torn between two directions. You do not understand what you aim for cannot be achieved by the use of your talent. The reality with life is, that it never gives someone everything you want. If only we can see in the future, we would know how we need to move to achieve the best version of ourselves.
Abilities also have a big role to play in our lives. Even though you have a talent that you want to use to achieve your target, you have to learn the skill of using it. Talents, moreover, do not require to be understood through formal education. Formal education can make them easier to use but informal education can also be achieved the same goal. Abilities take a long time to be mastered compared to talents. Sometimes you can be interested in both talents and abilities. I that is the case, do not ignore either, try to give both the attention they require. Whatever makes you happy is always worth fighting for no matter the obstacles ahead. Do not try to suppress a part of you to please anyone. Give everything you want meaning.
This life is cruel and what we want we never find the only thing we find ahead is pain. That fear of not getting what we dream of is always there. Sometimes we get there and find nothing that we expected. The thing if you let fear become an obstacle to you then you waste the time you have due to things and emotions you have no control over. Things may be wrong along your journey to the future, but they can also go well. Do not overthink too much or compare what your future might be just because that is someone else’s fate. The time and the chances you get are your weapons towards what you have. Do not ignore a chance just because you think it is not good enough, you might lose it forever. Do your best to control what you can and leave the rest to the Supreme. No one knows the time they have in this world but while you are here try until you can’t fight anymore. Never be the kind of person that looks at a glass of water and says it is half empty. First consider the half-full that helps you question your thirst even half full that helps you question your thirst even if it will not be for long, maybe before you get thirsty again you will have found a spring.
Our hearts are full of dreams,
Expectations cloud our minds,
For ourselves and from others,
Since we came to grasp,
The meaning of life,
Or at least we have tried to,
Plans for tomorrow we have,
They are alive in us,
We try to drive our life,
To the path we want,
Or is expected of us,
To become who we want,
Or who others want for us,
During the journey,
In the world,
We keep pushing,
Until we can’t anymore,
Or until the burdens way us down,
Life is not easy though,
You never dream,
And it becomes reality,
It is a tricky thing,
Obstacles are everywhere,
Memories of the past,
Full of pain and mistakes we remember,
We try our best to avoid failure,

Failure, achievement, and growth,
We can achieve what others want,
We can also fail those their opinion we care for,
The achievements we got for others,
We sacrifice what we want,
In us, we feel we have failed,
I wish we know the failed,
I wish we know the future,
We can see what to do,
To eventually be happy,
That is everyone’s goal,
We are only trying,
The best version we can be,
And sometimes for being human,
We lose perspective,
Of who we want to be,
We pray to the Supreme,
For the strength we need,
To get to the paradise we seek,
The journey is not easy,
Not at all,