The absolute saddest thing in life is standing helplessly on the sidelines watching pure potential go unrealized. So many people are arrantly talentless, and therefore to watch someone who isn’t waste their God-given gifts defies logic and is serious cause for dolor. If only drive and ambition were as commonplace as raw ability, but they undisputably aren’t and the competition between the two isn’t particularly close. Dedication is the great equalizer in life, and I would automatically take one conscientious hard worker over ten precocious but lazy prodigies any day of the week if I badly needed to get a job done in a timely manner. Pity the underachieving louts! Life doesn’t owe them anything. Contrarily, they owe life EVERYTHING, more specifically compensation for pillaging finite resources on a tiny blue planet that, for all we know, is the only one in an infinitely huge Universe that nurtures life and accepts all comers, irrespective of their level of gratitude.
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