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I still can't believe how many people deny talent and destiny.
I remember learning to draw, and how after four months of practice I couldn't even make a straight line.
But then the day I picked up piano, I intuited chords, time signatures, etc without any prior musical education.
I tried to pick up programming. But I am not destined to be a programmer, so I couldn't learn no matter how or how hard I tried.
But then I picked up kickboxing on a whim and after three months could easily defeat people who practiced for years.
I had a bit of a crisis there: should I be proud of skills that I didn't "earn," that I am good at things just because I'm meant to be? But of course, I'll never be a champion fighter; even if I'm talented, there are people with a far greater font of natural talent than I.
It's no different than how a person born poor will almost never become successful, or how a person born outside Japan will never become a famous mangaka. All of your life is based on the circumstances of your birth, and what skills you can develop is no different.
