Talent and Hard work is like Shawarma and Cold Stone
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☆ THE FIGHT THAT THE ANGELS ENDORSED
Have you ever been involved in a very hot argument on which item or personality is better?
Like...
- iPhone vs Android?
- Messi vs Ronaldo?
- Davido vs Wizkid?
- Nigerian Jollof vs Ghanaian Jollof? (obviously Nigerian Jollof)
- Chicken vs Turkey? (turkey always)
- Zeeworld vs African Magic? (None please)
- B… vs A..? (think whatever you want)
- Music Community vs Hive Open Mic? (Ksam is quiet)
- theyca…. vs appr…? (sorry, skip this part… I didn’t say anything)
- @merit.ahama vs @onos-f? (what is the basis for this argument?)
- 1000 HP vs 1000 Shawarma? (@hopestylist, I hope you won’t choose shawarma?)
- Talent vs hard work?
In one way or the other, you must have argued on one or more of these issues.
Well, please don’t ask me how I know that the angels endorsed this fight.
☆ TALENT VS HARD WORK?
To say the least, Eartherners are always confused whenever this question is posed at them.
Many would tilt towards the direction of Talent and exclude Hardwork, while others will create a hashtag for #onlyhardwork reigns.
Such actions get me pissed off and confused.
On the one hand, they say that when you have the talent or the grace, you don’t need to stress yourself for things. For instance, cute guys like @olujay don’t need to stress themselves, unlike one other guy called @ksam. While the former has the talent and the grace of cuteness inborn, the latter has seen "shege" so he neither has the talent nor is he working hard for it.
On the other hand, others would say that Hard work is the greatest. They say that with hardwork you can become Elon Musk in two weeks. I don't know how true this it, but that's what they keep saying.
☆ EITHER TALENT OR HARDWORK
When they hold on to the extreme case of this argument, then you'd realize that it's no longer a joke.
Imagine someone saying that since I have the Talent of singing, then I don't need to practice before singing at a concert. Or since I have the Talent of throwing paper into the wastebin from afar, then I am a professional basketballer. Honestly, such actions and thoughts wear the perfume of Pride.
Likewise, when someone says that since I do not have the talent of a footballer, then there is no need to work hard for it, even though I want to become a footballer. Or that there is no need to read for this exam since I'd always fail. Such statements are motivated by despair and foreclose the possibility for growth.
☆ TALENT AND HARD WORK
In a bid to flex our muscles, show superiority and show which is better over the other, we sometimes miss the point!
I am strongly of the opinion that we shouldn't bother ourselves with questions pertaining to which is superior to the other. Instead, we should focus our minds on how to get the best out of these amazing features.
Thus, whether we see talent as a natural skill in us and hardwork as consistent effort, we need to see both as complimentary instead of opposing features.
On the one hand, one with talent should make consistent effort (Hard Work) to be better and to progress. On the other hand, one without talent should put in consistent effort to develop that skill. With consistency, such skills or talent will become part of him or her.
So yes, Talent and Hard work goes in tandem, they go in pari pa sum, just like Shawarma and Cold Stone (Ice cream).
This post is my entry for Comedy Open Mi.. sorry, I mean Hive Learners theme on "Talent and Hardwork" for Week 37, edition 1.
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- Ice cream image from Slashio Photography
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I AM KSAM
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Please my attention is divided right now so lemme alone
Sharwama or ice-cream? 🤔 But I like the two o ☹️
Longer throat 😂😂😂
Na there dem go see you
What is he saying? 🙄
I'm nor understanding
Will she agree before? 😏
Who is she?
Please gossip about someone to me, I'm a good girl... Not a gossiper 🙂
The she is asking who the she is 😏
🚶♀️🚶♀️🚶♀️
Of course, na your people na 😂😂
Learning from you 😂😂😂
See you, @ksam people, better decide fast oo, so that Sam will send us money to go and buy oo, I think I will go with ice-cream then you should go for shawarma, we will na share 😂😂
Nice move
You sabi the matter, sense will nor kee you 😂
Ksam, I'm for Sharwama and she's for ice cream... Don't act funny and dubious about this
Normally, even @ksam know that I have sense 🤣🤣. Sam better send us the money oo, I want that ice-cream today 😏
Omo
Me I don't know ooo 😂😂😂
Wow, no problem, just send the money sha oo 😏😒
Merit is the one holding the money ooo
You don't play such expensive games with me, better go and take the money from her and send my own to me and give her too 😏
Meet her fez
You are really playing with me now and I don't like it at all 😒
I go update the DHF with this matter
Any other thing???
The Sharwama and ice-cream again
E don finish abi you wan feed 5000 people? 😂😂😂
Lol
The attention will not go on any yoruba leave by fire by force 😂😂😂
Hahaha, it has returned and I already passed the message across, lolz 😂
Lol
Better ooo
Yes jhur
No
Is you that knows that one 😪
I coming, I sawing and conquering... I am all in for the perfect letter S 😁😁
Hahaha, this girl have wiped my memory because I don't know what we are talking about again 😂😂
Eeeehn
Why will you know
When is food dah full the memory
Lol
Who called you here oo biko? 🙄🙄😂🤣 Please be going jhur
Coman carry me na 😏
You have weight jhur, go and look for someone else to carry you, maybe @merit.ahama or @balikis95 can 😜
😂😂😂... I cannot be found... I Don follow pluto
Hahaha, you need spanking 😂😂
Agreed😄😄
Hahaha, you are really high this girl 😂😂
💃💃💃
Lolz, Good morning dear 😃
Morning moonshine 😎😎
How are you doing my darling?
Hehe... Planning on where to lay my next mischievous attack and to whom 😉
Hmm, nice plan, this morning oo, abeg go and sleep jhur
🙄🙄 e b like say na your side the thing de come😁😁😁
Come well oo, but be on guard sha 💂♀️😂😂
😂😂😂, I love you too Sis😘😘
Hahaha, keep wiping it, it's fine 😅😜. I love you too my darling 🤗
Hmmmmm
What is doing this one? 🤣🤣
😘😘
🤗❤️
😘😘
🤭🤭
Hmmmm
🙄🙄 I no love you oooooo
😏😏😏
You sure?
Very unless you buy me Shawawa 😂😂
Oya com and collect 😏
😂 collect stone?? Abi sharwama
Food people
See their head ooo
Na there you go see them 😂😂😂
Thank you oooooo unfood people😂😂😂
Na you dey teach us naaa 😏
Agreed😄😄
Na why I like you bayi
No argument 🥰
😏😏😏
I don come drop my own, whoever tackles me when it comes to Sharwarma, make e no near my side...
😏😏
Shey you go beat me?
I wan tackle you 😏
😂😂😂... Na like I de laugh you... I jus de look you cos ehn, ... Eee
Cos wetin????????????????????????
Talk am
Hmm...make I jus pity you..
Talk 😏
Come and choke me😂😂😂
Ahhhhhhhh
🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️
Wetin my eyes dey see bayi
Abi my eyes dey pain meee
Gosh🤧🤧.. God needs to cleanse your heart with the mixture of hypo and garlic and dettol with ginger and garlic 😂😂
But you read it again na 😅😅😅
No blame my mind, na wetin you write... I read ooo 😅
Na wa oooo
This combinion sha 😅😅
You for talk say you wan cook... e remain make you add salt and pepper... lol enough pepper
Add them yourself😂😂, and eat it all.. God bless your soul.
Of course, why am I not surprised 🤣🤣. You and @ksam I greet ona specially, lolz.
Lol
Thank you oooo
As if you no like food
Smh
😂😂👏👏
Na we dey here
0.9 - Merit
😂😂 Na me first before you
Hahaha
Na wa ooo 😂😂😂
Fear God nau
I dey fear am o 🥺
But na me first 🙄
Lol
Na wa oooo.first to chop cane bah??? 😂😂😂
Which cane?
Wetin concern sugar cane concern shawarma wey we wan chop here na 🙄
The cane na just to test body small 👌😏
Lol.. imagine having both talents and also being hard working... that kind of combo, would be unstoppable...
that is one thing I like about @olujay... He is both in one.. Unlike me and you @ksam that have seen serious shege.
Na wa oo, so you don't have the two is what you are trying to say here abi am I reading the text upside down? 😂😂
You that is intelligent, cute and hard working so, hmm, let me reserve the rest sha 🙂.
That second paragraph, na Olujay get am 🤧
Not at all, na @starstrings01, hehe. Of course @olujay too and some people that I know 😂😂
The issue is that
Olujay is the owner 🤧🤧🤧🤧
Others just share small small if he allows them
aunty is already using olujay's qualities to describe me... ehn ehn... Me intelligent... Amen oh!
You sef have joined @ksam, well is the two of you that know what you people are saying sha, me I know what I'm saying too.
Yes you intelligent 😏
Mhen
He is just it....
Me I be stick like this, with a touch of shovel 🥲
Which shege did you see? 🙄
You better join the club of @olujay now
When I become club manager?😄😄
😂😂😂 You already know what I meant Sha. People like you who are cute no dey see shege na 😏
😄😄
Shege no send anybody o
Shege na vector quantity 😂😂😂
E get magnitude and direction
Lol
E no send anybody ancestor 😂😂
Omo
You be both Club owner and club manager ooo
Lol
😂😂😂
Na kuku you I resemble. And it's you hard-work and resilience I admire.
Who I kan resemble like dis 🥲
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Me I can't say I'm a foodie like that sha but I gat join because that shawarma enter my eye 😂.
Longer longer 😏😏
Instead of her to come out openly
She wants to scam us
Lol
Leave am na 😏
She don't know we know what she's doing 😂
She doesn't know that we know 😏
Abeg jhur
Foodie number 1 😂😂😂😂
Don't be disguising
You know I'm not 😂.
Well I'm trying to get back to being a foodie because I was 😁
You was, you will always was 😂😂😂
Lolz 🤣, I won't be always was, hahaha 😅😅
Lol
Go jhur
Bye bye, don't call me back oo 😒🚶♀️🚶♀️
Back
🙄🙄
Indeed those with talent should put in effort to get better at what they are blessed with and those without talents can always learn one and that of course requires hard work.
Well done with your analysis oo, oga foodie 🙄
Yes
You that have Engagement Talent now, ya working harder to keep it up...
Hehehe
Queen of Engagement
Engagement Princess
Engagement Knight and morning
I Greet you oooo
Hahaha, see this one 😂, well done oo, you are doing really well with analyzing things 🤣🤣
If I don't analyse you, who will? 😏
@onos-f
Mumu 😂😂😂😂
You no go analyse am
Lol
@hopestylist are you seeing this? 🙄
He said he will analyse you???
He should analyze it na, please don't call me again naw 🙄😏
Abeg I join o
That Sharwama can nor pass me by 🤫
Normally, I lazy gon... Hard work is just not my thing 😏 I dey like this softly especially food like Sharwama.
Make I go register myself abeg, no need for long talk
But wait o, when the Sharwama go reach my hand 🙄
You dey represent well... longer longer 😂😂😂
So is soft work that you prefer bah???
😏😏😏😏
Normal normal, the list no fit complete without you nau
Lol
Soft work is the goal 😌
Who like stress?
I don dey list o
Awaiting my Sharwama
Lol
Abi oooo
After we put our name, na to Open Hive Proposal... make dem use DHF fund am 😂😂😂😂
I get sense oooo
Lol... Nice plan
Over sense dey worry you like this
Yea yea
I don dey think this thing since 😂😂😂
This will be the perfect time eeehn
Yes, supported
For the first time, we are agreeing on something... This is weird but I can deal with it 🥲
Na longer longer dey make you deal with am 😂😂😂
Hard work and talent is like bread and butter. Both walks shoulder to shoulder. If you're talented, then, work hard to achieve your talented goal. Thanks for your view
Exactly
You are correct, they walk shoulder to shoulder. Thank you for your input
You're absolutely on point. Thanks for the commendation. Let's hive on
Yea
You're welcome
Thank you so much
It's a great pleasure. Am honored
Hmm, I was completely distracted from the content of the write up due the fact that I was salivating although. Lol
Truth be told, both talent and hardwork share a symbiotic relationship, both work in line for the perfection of job.
Thanks for sharing.
Hahahaha
My Longer throat brother
Welcome to the club
Lol
Your name has been registered on the blockchain 😂😂😂
Yea
Both work in-line to give you perfection
Nice touch there bro
Longer throat indeed😂
Thanks for the initiation 😅
Lol
You're welcome bro
Hahaha 😂😂😂
Ksammmmmm 😂
You will never seize to amaze me
Haaa!!!
You are a raw comedian oo
See how I am laughing my ass out here on top of this content
Some people are gifted shaa 😂
I am a foodie oo
Nkem is present here🙋🙋
I love the two combo for success to be achieved
Sharwama and cold stone oo
Hahaha 😂😂
Hahaha
My amazement no dey prison, na why I no fit cease you amaze you 😂😂😂
Oyaa naaa
Let's know awasef 😂😂😂
Foodie representing 😂😂😂
Welcome on board ooo
Even the combo of Sharwama and Cold Stone will give you success, not to even mention combo of Talent and hardwork. Lol
Hahaha, now I want to take shawarma and cold stone not because I like it oo, no, just to know how hard work and talent go together finish.
You may just call it a social experiment sha😂
Na longer throat dey do you, no be any kyn social experiment 😂😂😂
Nawa oo. What guarantees that registering our names down will provide Coldstone for me? 🙄 My name is here already... Do the needful blzzz 😬
The truth is that both complement each other and one should not be removed. With talent, hard work is needed. Without talent, hard work is still needed. So, we have to work hard (consistently) to make success out of what we aim at or desire.
Still waiting for my Coldstone oo 😔🥴
🙄🙄🙄🙄
Is longer throat that is doing you 😂😂😂
Both compliment each other so well... just like the food combo 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It is that eyes for me.
I am not a longer throat Sha oo but I don't mind having Coldstone and shawarma to complement a good night 😌🥴
Chop the good night alone oooo 🤣🤣
My good night has the 6 classes of food in it 🤣🤣
It is nutritious
Lol
I was waiting for the connection. You get lock say this paragraph no miss. ☺ I will agree with you on this @ksam. Talent and Hard work Go in tandem, they go in pari pa sum, just like Shawarma and Cold Stone And also just like @merit.ahama and @onos-f or @hopestylist and @onos-f
Normal normal, I get sense 😎😎😎
Na wa oooo
Why you wan join body with two sisters na 😂😂😂😂
You want siblings thunder bah??? 😂😂😂
I p t u
I be here thinking I was going to find myself drooling over food photos. I was wrong, and the foodie in me has been embarrassed.
Na so I see Olujay inside the equation. How come??😄😄
My own is that talent without hard work is like gari without sugar, groundnut, and sugar - e just no go sweet. E go dey slap😄
Na you be man of the match naaa 😂😂😂
Perfect example for person wey get Talent and still dey carry hardwork join
Baba oooo 🙌🙌🙌
oh boy, great writing!
Hahaha
Thank you
Hardwork and talent works hand in hand, you need to work hard before your talent is showcased.
Exactly
They work hand in hand 🙌
Food brought me in and on food, I shall speak on, forget this big grammar and find me better well-sauced and garnished Sharwama... If you disagree please argue with your ancestors 😂😂...
I didn't come in peace 🤣🤣🤣...
Why food no go brought you here? 😂😂😂😂
See longer longer 😂😂
Your own longer longer is showing well well
😂
E go brought me ooo cos my longer longer no send person😂😂
Hahaha
See her head ooo 😂😂😂
Na food full am😃😃
Lol
Ayam not surprised at all
I expected it 🤣🤣
Very good
Well, it was the uncontrollable love for the food that got me to cross 100 on a weighing machine.
:D
Talent vs Hard Work - Hard work always as it is a long-term plan. Talent on the other may be like a firecracker It may light up the sky for few seconds or may fail at times.
Beautifully written
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Naaaaaa
Food is a serial "keela" 😅😅
But when you add Hard work to Talent..... it becomes a long-term beauty 👌
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Hahahahahahaha. Okay let me put down my name first for the foodie role
@treasuree
Okay moving on, omo you get grace sha o, @hopestylist go soon shun you for that thing we're yo write about her picking 1000sharwama 😁
Many people have this mentality a lot especially in this our country , emphasizing on their talents and no need to work, well an OYO dem dey.
Boss @starstrings01 please I need the answer to that question, abi the motivation sha o
Came via dreemport
Hahaha, abeg leave @ksam he just dey whine me, lolz
Hhehehehhehhe, that kind winning 😜ehn🤣
Coughsssssss
As in ehn, lolz 😂😂
This one that you're coming late, we haff already share the shawarma and ice cream finish.... is only Tooth pick that remain ooo 🤣🤣🤣
She should coman shun me 😏😏😏 Hopeeeee ooooo 😅 Shun Ksam ihyeeeeee
True
They'll go no where with that
Thank you for your awesome contribution...
No vex say the shawarma don finish 😅
So you think that I have that time abi? Abeg don't call me again oo 😂😂
Yes, you have the time 😏
I don't jhur 🙂
Yes you do 😌
I be late come na, please no gimme toothpick, wet in I wan pick for the teeth
Bah wahala
Hehhehehehehe, 😀😀 hope no get time
Let me here.... sorry hear that you are not sharing this sharwama and coldstone ice cream here ahhh😩😩😩...why would you bring out the cravings ehhhh na wa ooo this life ehhh una use style wicked abeg🤧🤧.
If it's sharwama I often eat it many times but coldstone ice cream ahh... that one na big man pikin own ...e go make me travel small!
Let's wrap it up here!
In essence we need both the natural talent and the hardwork to make it worthwhile even as @olujay is handsome😒 he needs to put efforts in toasting the woman complete because I don't understand why you use him except that notion 😅😅😅
Like it's usually and normally said... practice makes perfect!!... okruuu!!
😄
Wahala be like toast bread.
Haha 😂😂😂
Hahaha
We go still chop am 🤣🤣🤣
Because I can 😏
Especially for longer throat people 🤣🤣🤣
@merit.ahama is my wonderful teacher...
I'm proud to be her student 😌
Rich kid
Rich madam 🙌🙌🙌
I Greet you specially ooooo
🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
He doesn't need to
Na dem dey toast am 😭😭😭
His own talent eeeehn 🤧
Lovely 🌹
Thank you