Discovering My Talent Made Life Fun

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Talent refers to one's exceptional natural ability to get things done. It is inherent but requires development. A person is said to be talented in a thing when he/she can do a thing very easily and perfectly even without necessarily being taught or having any previous knowledge. Though others would have to undergo series of thorough training before they can be acquainted with the activity while the talented person would only need to give it try. The difference between the talented person and a normal person is the level perfection , skill and ease with which they both show through their works. Talents can also be gotten by consistent practice, and being multi-talented is possible.

We can discover our talents by trying things out on our own and also through mentorship.

The Discovery
I was 21 years old when I discovered my talent. While I was in secondary school, senior class to be precise, i often hear people talk about talent and I wonder if I had any. There was a time I sought for my talent so much that I got frustrated and decided not to bother about it any more. I discovered almost every thing I did, I had to used my energy and it really cost me a lot of effort, at the end it doesn't always stand out. I couldn't pin point one thing that I was naturally good at, that One thing that I could do on my own. Meanwhile I love people who invent things themselves and I so wished i could get mine soon. If we are not people who love trying, we might never get to know our talents. One thing with me is that, once I try something and it didn't work, I easily get discouraged but I don't stop trying except I don't really mean it.

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Before I got my talent I suffered a lot trying different things. Whatever it is that seem to attract my attention I check it out to see if that is where I belong, I tried drawing many times but it didn't favour me. I tried public speaking but I was shamed, I am not too good at talking, I don't go far before I start stammering. I continued trying many things, like dancing , musical instruments and others but I couldn't lay my hands on that which really makes me feel like I am there, each of the ones I tried frustrated my life and made me feel useless. After a while I decided to forget about the matter and concentrate on my studies. Should I be honest with you? I was on that quest because my friends were intimidating me with theirs, you know how it feels to be the only person among your friends that can not invented something on your own, you only do what someone else has done, that thing sucks. I was feeling odd among them, but thank God I was doing very well in my academics , that too is something to talk about. I got relieved and concluded that I don't have any talent at all. Therefore I won't kill myself trying to get what I know does not exist. I emptied my mind completely and stopped allowing myself to get intimidated.

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Until the year 2019, when I took reading seriously. I love knowledge a lot, any good and edifying material I lay my hands on , I don't hesitate to feed my head with it. Each time I read, I discover that I get a lot ideas flowing through my mind based on what I read. If I read a passage, it will just look as if I am with the person that wrote it, like we are sharing ideas. I don't know how to really explain it, but it is usually like my eyes are opened and I am seeing the thoughts in the author's heart while he was writing. So I could easily relate with each sentence I read. Reading became fun for because of that, while others will read like news paper and get bored I read and find meaning out of every single word. So I was not just reading, I was fetching realities. It started becoming more fascinating, I found a companion that no one knows about, I started liking being inside than outside.

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Soon I thought it would be nice to start writing down the ideas in my head from whatever I read, since it doesn't stay long in my heart before it goes away. That was how I stumbled upon my talent to write. Once I read something and I decided to expound it, the river keeps flowing until I choose to stop. I don't know what to call it whether it is a coincidence or not but each time I try to relate what I wrote down with what is in the book I read, I discover it tallies and I always get amazed like, how comes? That was how I got my talent.

All this while it was resident in me, but how to get at it was the problem. Since then , life became more meaningful to me, whenever I am hurt I write my pains downs, whenever I am excited I write and words don't stop flowing until I look at the time and discover it is late then I stop and get some sleep 😁. I was happy to atleast have something that I could really do on my own without having to go and copy from another person.

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When one journey ends, another begins. Though I found my talent , I could write and write without having ideas exhausted but I don't know the principles of writing, sometimes I would need someone to give me a topic first, I repeat sentences sometimes, another thing is I don't even have grammars to ganish my work😁. Some of us grew up in the village, our English teacher was sacked while we were in primary one 😹. I could only use the simpler words am conversant with. What I mean here is that, discovering our talent is one thing, developing it, is another thing. If we don't develop our talent, though it is supposed to take us to heights in life but we might end up remaining local and stagnant. Gold is beautiful but the beauty can never be seen as long as it is not purified in fire.

How far have I used my talent, where has it taken me?
If not that I discovered I could write, I wouldn't have been on the Hive platform. The talent has brought me to a place where I could write and get paid, and also improve my writting skill. I told you I have a lot of challenges on writing earlier on right? isnt all the reward interesting? Through this same talent I have come across people that became friends, from friends to family. I have not gone far yet, I am still writting and I will continue writting 😁. Learning never ends.

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