and the topic shall be....
God's gifts to the individual person.
I believe or I shall choose to believe that God has blessed each and every single individual with some type of talent or gift. Be it dancing, singing, sports, orations, or what not.
I know that some who do not believe in God believe that practice can make anything perfect, but in my 18 years of life as a Christian (although I can't say i've been Christian for all 18 years), I can't agree with those who do not believe in God.
I think that God has blessed each and everyone of us with a talent that we have to find ourselves, that we have to work to achieve, but most definitely it is there within us.
For example some people are BORN to dance like my SPOP staffer and inspiration, Marissa Osato. Watching her dance inspires me and awes me, and I believe her talent is the product of God's benediction, her own dedication, and her own passion for the art of dance.
I have yet to discover my own gift, probably because of my lack of dedication to try and find it.
There are times when I think that God has blessed with me the gift of singing, but then again I am not very good at singing, so I push that aside. And being introduced to the world of dance I hope that my "gift from God" is dancing. JUST starting to dance, I will not make a judgement yet, I will continue to strive to become better, and if I do not get better I guess dancing is not the thing for me.
Whenever I hear an amazing voice, I am inspired to start singing again, but I have experienced many disappointments when it comes to singing. I was rejected constantly from group after group in high school, yet the people around me told me that I had a decent voice, I did not know which group of opinions to believe. On one side people that "know" the talent of the voice have judged me and declared that I was not good enough, and on the other hand people that care about me say that I DO have a voice. Knowing that my friends and family would probably avoid trying to hurt me I decided to believe that I was not talented enough, and completely gave up on singing. And it also seems that many of the opportunities that I was presented to sing, were shot down. One example is the Benefit Concert of 2009 that I was planning on auditioning for. I practiced for a couple weeks with Rilla Peng, and for the first time in a long time I felt that I was good at singing, but then a day or two before the audition I was, I guess I could say cursed with some sort of throat infection and could not audition. Was it God's wish that I not sing? Or was it just a fluke illness, I guess I will never know, but after that I put aside singing. Yet each time I hear someone on youtube, or hear someone in person that other people think are good, I think to myself (not to sound conceited) "wow I know I am better than that person."
Whether it is dancing or singing, or probably something else that does not have to do with performing, God HAS blessed me with something, and hopefully I will be able to find that in the remaining 3 and a half years that I have left of college.
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-Eric Kim
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