The Yoke of the Gifted

I have been thinking a lot about talents and about using your talents to the best of your ability. I have also been thinking about ambition and drive and how no matter your talents without something to push you sometimes gifted and bright people never reach their full potential. I am very happy and fortunate to have found my talent, followed my drive, and nurtured my ambition. It is how I got to where I am today with a wonderful job and career that I love, a magnificent fiancée that is so perfect for me, and a beautiful home that is all my own. However I do see some of my friends and family that have the talent and not the drive or have the drive and not that talent and I feel sad that some of them just seem stuck trying to find their way. I can only imagine how hard it is to choose a path in a world where so many options are available. It must be hard for someone who is gifted and who is interested in so many things to settle on one thing. Then there are the worries of wondering if you made the right choice or if another path would have been better. Who knows there could be such a thing as fate or luck and we are all just in a crapshoot.