Talent is a Tool.

"Talent is a tool and trouble is a friend"

Talent is something special. It is our own ability. Our skill, that either come naturally or something that is trained. We polish it, perfect it, and use it, hopefully for our benefit. 

Talent is a tool. It is utilized for the best benefits imaginable. Take a good musical instinct and use that talent to construct symphonies and orchestras. Take good public relations and use it to know as many people as possible. 

But talent is two-pronged. It can go in the other direction as well. It can be to strip people of benefits. Take an excellent cardsharp at the card table who shows promising skill with sleight of hand, and this man can be the cheat during what seems to be a clean poker game. This man can be the sole ripper of benefits, namely money in this sense, and send other 'suckers' in the game to the cleaners. 


But not straying from the point, everyone has talent. And everyone can harness it, use it for whatever they need. 


But behind every talent, trouble can await. 


Talent is a tool, and trouble is a friend. And in certain instances, talent do not go well with trouble, but trouble always awaits. 


For every man who has promising talent, is open to exploitation of some sort. Where there is exploitation, where he utilizes his talent not in his own will, there will be trouble. 


Take for example the sleight of hand artist who does things purely for the love of sleight of hand. Trouble awaits at the card table if say someone employs him to be the dealer to deal him the winning hands. In short, people are using him to get the money. 


Take for example a promising new product by a university student full of vision. It can be arranged such that the product he comes up with will not be his own. It will be 'made' into someone else's idea. It will ripped off from him. 


Take individual talent of intellect, who come from one country to another to study but in the end does not go back to serve. This is because the other country is keeping intellectual talent from the parent. Malaysia is one good example, where intellectual talent does not go back to Malaysia one way or the other. 


University students who do their final year projects (This for engineering students) have to sign an agreement form, in which they declare that all findings will eventually be properties of the university, and not themselves. This is also another version of taking talent from claiming their name. 


And the list can go on and on. Point is, talent keeps on sprouting from time to time. But in the end trouble always awaits at the door to utilize the tool for something else. Something that it was not designed for. But in the end it gets done due to the mystical appeal and finesse of 'trouble'. 


Think about it. Does it matter to keep talent where it should be?