When You Are Gifted With Much...

"When you are gifted with much, much is expected from you."

I would say that I would like to agree to this philosophy.

I never really considered myself gifted. I just considered myself to be normally blessed like any other person in this universe. But I've been literally used by the faculty in SPUQC because of my "programming skills". If I really had that gift, wasn't I supposed to be an "A" student in computer? That was how I thought of it. Call me ungrateful but we really all are equal.

It really gets flattering when people start praising me after seeing my uh, "Obra Maestra" (That was Ms. Lector's term for my digital works). But when I see something that has been done better that mine (well, they really are obviously better), I suddenly get this feeling that I should shrug down at the back of the crowd appraising my work. I slowly back down and approach the artist of the work (that I found better than mine), congratulating him/her with an enthusiastic voice, "Grabe! I like your work! Turuan mo ko sometime, a?"

4/5 of the people that I've said that to think that I'm just mocking them. Makes me feel disappointed, though :|

Some people offer money exchange for my labor. I refuse. I don't want to get bound to the thought of living because of talent exchanges. I want to live because of my passion, not because of my talent. If my passion is really in making stories, then so be it. There's no use of telling me to go on with my "artistic" gift in digital arts. I mean, please. Anyone can be good at it. Just put your hearts into it, you'll all be as good as Marc Ecko.

I want to be a film director.

I want to be a well-renowned journalist.

I want to be a highly-paid technical artist.

I want to be a dozen more personas... But I still want to keep on being me.

"Talent is a natural endowment or an ability of a superior quality [It says here in the dictionary]. Everybody can excel in what you think you do best in, everybody can have the talent. But only you would have that amount of passion that you put into that gift that was given to you. Through that passion, you would be worth something more than the others."

"Talent and gift alone are common. Passion's what makes it all different."

"Passion is what separates an artist from another artist. They can both paint, but if the other one has greater passion, his paintings gain greater human value."

"What determines you from the others is your passion for it."