Genius
Who is a genius? In my friend Suchan’s views, he is someone having extraordinary and brilliant qualities, which he acquires by birth. To say it simply, he calls it “in-born” talent. Did he miss something? What do you think? Boy! Where the hell is hard work…!!!
Albert Einstein, the world calls him a genius and by doing so they unjustly put a blanket over his hardships and the pains that he went through, and the number of hours and years he pushed himself persistently to discover something, yes something, which he himself would have been unaware of. And then, they easily ignore that how he put his career at stake by clashing with the authorities and the school's regimen and teaching method. And, had he been unfortunate enough to have not discovered what he was looking for, even after this much hard work, he would’ve ended up in obscurity and that too without any prosperous career to console with.
See sacrifice, that’s what it takes to be a “genius” and indubitably not “in-born” talent. But would Suchan know that, would he? He is happy, absolving himself of any hard work and persistence efforts, by comfortably attributing someone else’ to a mystifying term “genius”.
It takes everything, yeah everything to be called a genius; it takes five or may be fifty times more effort than an average mortal; and certainly not the so-called “in-born” talent.
And in the end, I do hope that this “good” friend of mine has got some good-sense of humor.
