What if Irony is Judging Others for Lacking Empathy?
Too many times,
have I heard that talent
without hard work
is nothing.
The over-emphasis on hard work
can mask the fact
that talent is talent
precisely because
it’s not hard work.
Sometimes
we spend so much time
trying to get better at what is hard
at the expense of discovering how what comes easy,
our talent,
can be shaped
to provide significant value.
There are things
to be achieved.
Then there are things
to be discovered.
When we confuse something
that needs to be discovered
with something that needs
to be achieved
we may achieve
only to wonder
why it feels
insufficient.
Because what is to be discovered
cannot be known
before the discovery
while achievement assumes
the exact
opposite.
