Walk With Me

Tux in the Slum?

What happened to Manny Pacquiao when he entered basketball as playing coach? Did he become productive like what he achieved in his boxing? With two turnovers on his behind the back dribble, plus a point in his 10-minute debut game, I don’t think so. Perhaps, we can draw lots of lesson from this though we can’t say he won’t improve as a basketball player. But what I want to stress out is this, “Shine where you are placed and develop the things in there that are ought to be developed.

In my 6,414 days of my existence, I would dare say that I’ve undergone a lot specially things that would concern about talents. I can give you a shot of human beatbox, a piece of singing, a blow-by-blow article on sports and many other sorts. But I don’t mean to brag about these things-who am I but just a single spec of organism referred to the universe the same as you-. But let me testify myself about two things: cultivating the talents within and making those talents explode like fireworks by distinct fervidness.

We may say, “How will I discover my talents?” It’s easy; try everything as long as it’s healthy and holy. Rest assured we all do have talents, if we don’t consider it then it’ll insult our Creator. However, if what you tried resulted to failure then its fine, but in the particular failure we can obviously assess whether we have potentials or not. Doesn’t this spell, SIMPLE?

What I hate in my thousand days of existence are the following: 1.) the people who don’t know how to appreciate what they have manifested by envying and defaming others who already discovered it, 2.) the people who are too lazy to practice but too eager to perform in other words people who just want to reap but not cultivate what are already sown, 3.) people who assume big heads in the small brain those for example people who sings out of tune yet has too much dose of guts to show off or I mean to boast.

Do you know the difference between real trying hard people and deluded superstars? Well, the first is never bad because it’s always practical to develop what one’s have. However, the latter is the most unpardonable for me because how can one hone what he or she doesn’t have or in a literary sense, how can one reload a gun if he or she has only a knife?

Discovery is always easier than acceptance but if we always count what we don’t have, and then we’ll end up losing everything. If we further insist about this impracticality, Aristotle might slap us with his natural logic, “Man is naturally ordered to correct thinking.” I guess that is eureka for me- practicality in its truest sense.