Talent

Although I was just making a flippant remark about someone who is famous having multiple talents, if you really want to analyze the situation, yes we all have talents.  Most of us have talents that will never be appreciated or viewed as talents at all.  Most of us live our lives for other people, sacrifice the time that it would take to hone a craft to live for our families and friends.  Much like George in It's a Wonderful Life, we are given choices throughout our life and end up choosing to take care of other people and important things rather than pursue our own dreams or live our lives selfishly for ourselves.  The lie that is present in the statement, "those who claim they have none either haven't found theirs yet or they haven't practiced it enough," is that someone just isn't working hard enough to get their happy ending.  It is a lie to believe that if we work hard, it will all work out for us.  Life just doesn't work that way.  Most people go to the grave with busted knuckles, broken backs and tired hearts from working really hard.  There was no big payout in the end.  There was no angelic guided realization that having a loving family and respect from your neighbors was enough.  Most people know in their hearts that they are working hard and making those tough choices and sacrifices to make their children's lives better, but in their heads want just a little more for themselves and no one else.  The shame in the lie is that it also assumes that if you aren't rich, famous, happy and have more than a mediocre life, that you just didn't work hard enough.  It's just not true. Those that don't have much in the way of money, comfort, fun, a job they enjoy, have probably chose responsibility over their ego and family over a pursuit of happiness.  That doesn't mean that they have failed.  It means that they honed their craft and talent of taking care of other people.  They will never get rewarded for it and they will probably never get a pile of money to save their business in the end either.  All that we can be rewarded with is another moment to live another day to enjoy the very smallest of joys that may exist.