I do look at people's talent and just scream "talents deh cry", they do things effortlessly. Like a friend of dad, he is a carpenter without undergoing any training, he is so good in crafting wood, he makes tools you can even imagine, I'm usually amazed and I do wonder what Talent do I have?.
I have now been able to see that I have many talents which looked like I didn't have any then. One of it is photo editing, I knew it was a skill when someone asked me to teach him how to edit photos, that he would love to get into photography, me that is looking down on myself whenever I see photographs from the so real photographers.
I have now learnt to embrace it, I try editing two to three photos daily, trying all the tools and see how they come out which is a really great way of improving this skill. Without undergoing training, with several trials I know how to use my phone for mobile photography. You might think it is something everyone has, but if you're good in photography in your crew of friends, they won't let anyone else take photos of them, they will even go on to say give that photographer, these are the things I face Everytime we want to take photographs.
I wasn't that good in color grading, I can't just hold the laughter when I look at the photos I edited some years back, same thing goes with the pictures we thought it was the best then, they all look weird now. I used to edit with abstract colors then, trying to color grade every photo I come across.
I now notice that it's not every photo that needs too much manipulation with colors, some needs that natural vibrance and retouching. With different editing tools I know what I could do with it, to make your photo stand out.
Another thing you would notice, not comparing both players but when you see Messi you know this is talent, like he was born with the ball. Ronaldo on the other hand has that talent but not he is really pushed with hardwork and passion. Messi will just sit on the ball acting less concerned while others are running around the pitch, then he performs a masterclass, that's talent, they don't stress to carry out the tasks.
We started playing ball when we were young, without proper training, we just know we are to kick the ball or dribble and score, this is a talent we look down on. I can joggle the ball 100 times and above, this is what I wasn't trained with.
During our Football tournament in school, during half time a spectator who happened to be in another department said "guy you get talent o, guy you're good, why not get into football full-time", I just smiled. So I do have many talents.
Sometimes I envy some people with talents, like how did you do this, how did you think about this?. My classmate is so good in calculations that we compete with him by setting him with someone, the other person uses calculator while he uses his head, we call a calculation like 70 multiplied by 9, he was always faster than the calculator, like how do you do that?. Talents deh cry oo, truly.
But how about eating?, omor na better talent oo, some people go chop you sef go shock if na human being, like one guy weh Dem call spanner, oga deh swallow eba like water.
