Are You A Talent Or A Labour?

There were a couple of young assistants following him for 2 to 3 years. I also naturally made acquaintance with them. One of them is a girl called Aya. When I met her for the first time, she was carrying a pile of papers like doing some stunt walking down the stair with a smile on her face. She's sweet and kind. my lawyer friend told me :" Aya is very obedient."

I used to think that he was quite satisfied with her performance and would  let her stay in the law firm. However, to my surprise, I caught a sight of her near a selling booth in a computer exhibition fair one day. She was right there shouting :" The only one chance in your life time! Cut-throat price! You will regret if you miss it!"

"When did you leave the firm?" I asked like shouting at her out of a noisy sea of people.

Her eyes suddenly turned wet:" It has been three mouths. My tutor told me I am not suitable for this field and I have to leave..."

My heart sank for her words and I found no words to say. So I shouted at her again:" Are you ok now?"

"It's all the same. A job. No big deal at all!" She tried hard to squeeze a smile to encourage herself. A few days later, I encountered my lawyer friend. There were fewer assisstants and fewer people with a smile on face like Aya.

"redundancy, ha?" I asked smilely:" almost no happy faces left here!"

He also simled:" You mean Aya? I asked her to leave because she's not suitable for this."

"Is that so? She worked really hard, I think."

"Working hard makes no sense at all! What I need is a talent, not a labour."

I was shocked.

When it comes to talents and labours, I seldom think about it. I used to think as long as one tried her best in doing something, he or she can do it well, but I forget the importance of speciality and accuracy. And what's more important is talent.

If we do things in a wrong way, it will just turn out to be a waste of time; if we can't make ourselves more professional, we can just become a labour but a talented people. Labours are everywher but talents need to be found and trained.

"Why don't you trained her into a talented one?" I still insisted.

He took a look at me with no patience:" Someone have already regarded themselves as talents while someone feel just all the same whether to be talents or not. So, how can I train her even if she don't want it?"

What Aya's words in the fair suddenly crashed into my mind:"It's all the same. A job. No big deal at all!"

Maybe it's that "no big deal" stuff finally kick her out of this competition.

I silenced finally.

And you? Are you a talent or a labour?