In my opinion, it is within human nature to find something that is loved, and become the best at it, but whether that loved activity is financially sufficient and career worthy are standards in most cultures today. While I could write a completely different essay on how this necessity for monetary stableness can make or break a person’s happiest goals in life, I am more concerned at the characteristics necessary to push a person towards not only choosing an alternative route different from a simple desk job, but also becoming so successful and talented that a human being can become legendary. Is it the talent alone, or is it more so the ability to affect a person’s emotions. Even more so, is it just a person’s work, or is it the personality and style of life that lends a hand towards representing, changing, or even creating a culture or subculture. The biggest question of all though, is that of a person’s will power. Does one have to knowingly make the decision to become legendary, or does such a high status just come as a side effect of a simpler want to just be truly happy. I’ll begin with the lighter questions since even I must think upon that of the last inquiry.
The easiest of these self posed questions is that of talent and emotional reactors. Yet it is not an easy question in it’s self, being that human emotions are similar to that of unstable atoms, reacting to everything around them in either positive or negative ways. Since this is a know fact among most human beings, it is not the initial reaction that is important that is important. Instead a measure of greatness is the piece of work’s ability to impact generations far behind the time of the initial creation. Similar to the initial reaction, the aspect of talent is not as important due to the factor of personal opinion. In comparison, cultural influence is much less subjective than that of an opinion claiming that person is good or not. For example, the works of Andy Warhol may be critiqued as uncreative and uninspired, yet he revolutionized the culture of life of an artist and the way it is viewed, by his own lifestyle and personality.
That leads me to the second point, the quality of works and a career in comparison to personality and lifestyle and which holds the more importance. This comparison is actually that which holds results finding that one factor contributes to the other in a large measure, yet without the second factor that of the first does not stand for much. Talent without that of personality has a tendency to be somewhat dry and unrelatable. This may be caused by the ever growing media technologies turning celebrity figures into a public characters. In some ways it is even impossible for a person in the public eye to not become a real life character for the masses to watch and follow on an hour by hour timeline. For the sake of specifics, it is not so much a person presenting their personality to the public and their fan base, but presenting a true, outgoing, and charismatic persona through the media. For example, Kanye West is no doubt one of the most widely known, creative, and influential person in the present day music world, but what truly sets him apart from many other talented souls is his asshole persona fashion forward senses, and being ahead of the curve by a mile. It his stepping out of the stereotypical role of a rapper/producer to take on many other lines of work that pushes his legacy forward.
The third and by far easiest of the questions once thoroughly thought out, happiness factor versus that of self confidence. Similar to that of personality/quality, confidence is one of the main affects when being personally happy with one’s creations, but happiness is not necessarily an affect of confidence. More so happiness is derived through a large amount of passion and hard-work, and ironically enough these are the same characteristics that separate a career from a simple job. I don’t believe I have to really explain the lack of satisfaction, depression, and questions of significance that can come from cubicle jobs and other forms of tedious work, and the complete opposite that can come from career paths now do I? Didn’t think so.
Well I quite done with this this little personal essay of mine, hope everyone enjoyed and comments and discusses. Let me know how you feel even if you don’t really agree with everything said here. It’s all love. Peace people.
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