I believe that every single person already possesses at least one extraordinary talent. We feel a natural inclination to sing or dance, and some of our talents are still waiting to be discovered.

For example, when I was in High School I could not stand writing compositions and essays or analyzing the works of famous writers and poets. It would take me two whole days to come up with something moderately decent, because I would spend hours looking for the right word or the best way to phrase my thoughts (not that I had a lot of them to share in the first place).

To my great surprise when I was at College one of my friends asked me to write an article for the local magazine on how to rescue a drowning person. I remember that I sat down and wrote it in about half an hour, enjoying myself tremendously. It was nothing like 10-page essays!

It turned out that I was good at writing and that I actually loved it!

I am not sure that my ability to write can be called extraordinary, but this is the first talent I would choose to have. The second one without a doubt would be the ability to paint. I recently wrote a letter to a 10-year old boy attempting to draw a dog at the end of the page. My dog turned out to be so ugly that I had to rewrite the whole letter in order not to shock the poor kid. Thank God, there is youtube.com with its course on “How to draw a dog for children”. The second letter turned out much better.

I am not in the least bit discouraged! Who knows, maybe 20 years from now I will discover my own painting style and make a whole series of ugly dog painting.

But enough about me…

I am a lot more interested to find out what extraordinary talent you would like to possess?

If you could choose one talent in any art, what would you like it to be?

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