The Gift and the Curse
by Java Bomani

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A person can be both blessed and cursed with great
natural ability.

Yes… blessed and cursed.

It’s up to the individual to decide which will apply.
Those born with speed or agility, razor sharp instincts
can lose it all, if they don’t hone the gifts they’ve
been given.

I’m lucky: I was blessed with a lot of God given ability.
There aren’t too many things I haven’t been able to pick
up just like that, Martial Arts wasn’t exempt. In
analyzing myself, which I do quite often, I’ve come up
with a few negatives in such gifts.


A person who was blessed with (for the sake of a subject)
great jump rope ability, just grabs the rope and does it.
No real knowledge of physics is needed; timing and
reflexes and pre-installed. No real lessons need to be
learned to do it. No work ethic is developed; no sweat or
strain is exerted. No sleepless nights, twisting up the
sheets tortured by failure, which drives many to try
until they succeed, making at better person at end.  A
person who knows struggle, and now have the experience
and knowledge of how to focus on a goal and to achieve it.

The one blessed with natural ability has all the
advantages. He can choose to work just as hard as the
person with little ability but the drive to repeat the
process until it becomes natural --  but few do, because
it’s all so easy for them. Neither way is wrong, the
point is, to appreciate the struggle. That path to self
awareness has more than one trail, but it's the finish
line that counts.
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