| The Gift and the Curse by Java Bomani I decided to tweak this article because some people didn't get it. I hope the new version is better understood. 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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