my reply to the "JUST A PASSERBY"

this is for the passerby that left the comments on my tagboard.

firstly, my post is not questioning the right or wrong of the act of putting in effort or the desire to improve oneself, but instead is questioning the intention behind these acts.effort only trumps natural talent when engineered and steered efficiently and proficiently,and that only happens successfully when God intends it with the greatest of intentions.any other motive that drives the effort will fail in many aspects, and may even cause other aspects of ur life to fall apart.
Secondly u are also assuming with ignorance that natural talent stands on it own without effort.

Thirdly if it is really God's way of helping you, then you wouldnt be asking me that question at all wont u? u probably wont be even bothered by this post.

Fourthly,my guess is that u want it to be God's way of helping you, or u wouldnt be positing the possibility at all.

Once again there is nothing wrong with 'putting in effort to make up' for what seems like a 'loss of innate ability' but i think ur effort is merely trying to mask and make up for the 'loss of ego' that you've suffered when u realised u lost out to someone u deemed 'unworthy' or 'improbable' to be better than u in that aspect.

Lastly,
my dear fren, if u really want to excel in whatever, its not gonna be abt u, what u want to excel in, what u think is best for ur 'presentation/performance/a chance to show off' etc.etc. it will be abt what God wants for you. and that will actually be better, and u will find more fuller and long lasting satisfaction than u ever did trying to excel on things god did not intend for u to excel in.

and if jealousy is the thing that drives u, it will be the thing that destroys u

God bless,

Ivan