To achieve grandness you need pain, abuse, hunger, courage, love and disillusion and above all: freedom.
Talent can only take you over the first flight of steps, but to climb the hill you will have to go up and up while being clawed by branches, sliced by thorns, tripped by roots, chilled by indifference and allured to the side by deceitful mirages. You will be spat on, laughed at and shown to children as an example of failure, of how chasing dreams and following your heart really looks like.
Till one day, when the pitiful stops the engineer, the doctor, the scientist in place – and they all watch mesmerised...
............After a while they smile and lower their head in salute............
