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Gabby Douglas. By the age of sixteen, she had won two of the arguably most coveted and prestigious medals in the world-the Olympic medal. This is something that I envy. Not the medals, not the fame, the glory, the publicity, the attention, the money, but the skill, the pure, raw skill and talent that that girl possesses. Imagine being sixteen years  old and already finding your place, already finding a thing that you’re really, really good at. That’s what I envy. Here I am, sitting here at 19 years old, perpetually wondering if it’s pathetic that after 19 years of life, I still haven’t found anything that I am amazing at, something that I am the best at. The shitty thing is that perhaps the root of this problem is that I have yet to find something that I am truly passionate about. The sad thing is is that I think that most people go through their entire lives that way. Wining and dining, drinking and driving, excessive buying, overdose on dying. But never actually finding the thing that they love or that they’re the best at. All the time, people go through their entire lives with finding either of those things, and then they die, without hardly leaving a mark. How unfair, you say? How sad? I agree. And so I’ve developed a bit of a theory: Some people never have the chance to find their place in the world, the place where they excel more than anyone else. And so I have to believe that their children are meant to be the legacy, that their children will find their place and do something great. And if not their children, than maybe their children’s children, or their children’s children’s children. Just somewhere along the road or across the family tree, some will find their passion and use it to accomplish something great, maybe not Olympic medal winning great, but great nonetheless. And this greatness will in turn give meaning to the lives of those who never had a chance to find their own greatness. I suppose that sounds a little like the workings of destiny and I suppose this could lead into an argument over fate versus free will. But we won’t get into all of that.


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