Yes,I have to admit it to the world, I have hidden this for long time. "I have no specific talent to boast upon".There have been innumerable times when I have had to come up with "on the fly" answers to that demeaning question "What's your talent?" I could no longer keep this with myself since it was becoming a burden too heavy to withstand!
Let me try and explain why I don't have any specific talents, following is my honest attempt at understanding my own predicament,
I remember back in childhood I used to sing occasionaly and there was this person who happens to be a distant relative who did tell my mother to get me classically trained. That's the only person who has ever told me that I did sing good, no one else has ever since! So due to lack of encouragement I had to quit singing which never was my passion( What is?)
Dancing seems to be the second best talent, I never danced in my childhood and to this day I lament on this fact, why din't I? If I had I could have gone places. Believe me I never danced in any of those umpteen number of cultural events our school had! No one, not even a soul asked me to dance,neither did I think about it that much. Now I do dance,but it is more to do with free style which has no specific style at all! However have to say this dance can be so exhilarating, wish someone had told me.
Music: I have one more significant confession to make, there are so many people for whom music means the entire world but I honestly need to tell you it has never caught my imagination. I have never got immersed into music, I have no clue why! I do listen to music but am not passionate about it. My taste buds in music vary a great deal not sticking to any particular genre. I listen to Bob Dylan,Adele,Amit Trivedi composed and a few hit numbers which you anyway can't miss. I wish I could be as passionate as some people are about music.
Movies/TV Series: This is one thing which comes very close to being my talent, but it does sound weird when I would have to say "Watching Movies" is my talent! I am not a encyclopedia of movies like some people are. I do know a few names in movie industry but I don't keep a track of them. The only reason I love movies and TV series is because they tell a "Story". A story which can inspire me and make me a better person than I am. I love stories but even that isn't my talent since I only love them, I don't do anything with them.
Academics: If my academic scores were plotted on a graph you would get a perfect Zig-Zag image! I was never a topper and believe me I am happy that I wasn't! Why am I happy? Well toppers are people who are most ridiculed among friends, how bad is that! I scraped through many examinations to be called a engineer and also a MBA but academics in totality was never my forte.
I can go on and on about many fields where I don't have any talent but I think it isn't fair on my part to waste your time.
However, If there is one silver lining which my talentless life has taught me, it is this. Every person no matter what he is good at needs a helping soul who can have faith in him or her. It is this helping hand which pushes the talent to the pedestal. There are enormous number of people who have incredible talents but never come out of the shackles, My dream is that one day I can be that soul who would help people to come out and chase their dreams. To do that I need to have the capability first, Hence I need to develop that ,So for now all I can do is Motivate and encourage people to do better in whatever they do.It isn't something tangible but that is the closest I can come to having Talent.
Let me try and explain why I don't have any specific talents, following is my honest attempt at understanding my own predicament,
I remember back in childhood I used to sing occasionaly and there was this person who happens to be a distant relative who did tell my mother to get me classically trained. That's the only person who has ever told me that I did sing good, no one else has ever since! So due to lack of encouragement I had to quit singing which never was my passion( What is?)
Dancing seems to be the second best talent, I never danced in my childhood and to this day I lament on this fact, why din't I? If I had I could have gone places. Believe me I never danced in any of those umpteen number of cultural events our school had! No one, not even a soul asked me to dance,neither did I think about it that much. Now I do dance,but it is more to do with free style which has no specific style at all! However have to say this dance can be so exhilarating, wish someone had told me.
Music: I have one more significant confession to make, there are so many people for whom music means the entire world but I honestly need to tell you it has never caught my imagination. I have never got immersed into music, I have no clue why! I do listen to music but am not passionate about it. My taste buds in music vary a great deal not sticking to any particular genre. I listen to Bob Dylan,Adele,Amit Trivedi composed and a few hit numbers which you anyway can't miss. I wish I could be as passionate as some people are about music.
Movies/TV Series: This is one thing which comes very close to being my talent, but it does sound weird when I would have to say "Watching Movies" is my talent! I am not a encyclopedia of movies like some people are. I do know a few names in movie industry but I don't keep a track of them. The only reason I love movies and TV series is because they tell a "Story". A story which can inspire me and make me a better person than I am. I love stories but even that isn't my talent since I only love them, I don't do anything with them.
Academics: If my academic scores were plotted on a graph you would get a perfect Zig-Zag image! I was never a topper and believe me I am happy that I wasn't! Why am I happy? Well toppers are people who are most ridiculed among friends, how bad is that! I scraped through many examinations to be called a engineer and also a MBA but academics in totality was never my forte.
I can go on and on about many fields where I don't have any talent but I think it isn't fair on my part to waste your time.
However, If there is one silver lining which my talentless life has taught me, it is this. Every person no matter what he is good at needs a helping soul who can have faith in him or her. It is this helping hand which pushes the talent to the pedestal. There are enormous number of people who have incredible talents but never come out of the shackles, My dream is that one day I can be that soul who would help people to come out and chase their dreams. To do that I need to have the capability first, Hence I need to develop that ,So for now all I can do is Motivate and encourage people to do better in whatever they do.It isn't something tangible but that is the closest I can come to having Talent.
