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“Anyone Can Cook”
----Inspired by the movie “Ratatouille”
----Written by yours truly, Ephraim Kephas a.k.a. Jack
Recently, I have had the privilege of seeing the movie as called “Ratatouille”. Now, before you assume that I shall write a review of the movie, in reality, I am writing my thoughts on one particular ‘theme’ or ‘moral’ of the movie itself. In the movie the deceased chef called Gusteav has a saying that is, quite simply, “Anyone can cook.” Now, what am I going to write about that saying? Oh, well, read on, my dear reader, and you shall see soon enough.
“Anyone can cook.” Oddly enough that can be applied to almost any profession or hobby that humanity itself is capable of. Anyone can read. Anyone can write. Anyone can dance. Anyone can sing. Anyone can study. Anyone can play an instrument (i.e. flute, piano, violin, guitar, drums, bass, trumpet, fife, etc., etc.). Anyone can do something. In fact everyone can do everything. But just because everyone can do everything does not mean that everyone is good at all of it. In all likelihood, most people will only be commendably good at one to three things. In truth, anyone can do anything – but it takes more than just talent or practice to make you truly good.
It takes several things to be really good at something, actually. Do you want me to list them for you? Well, first of all, what is needed is to practice and to be diligent in practicing. You cannot just practice playing the guitar one day and then not practice for two weeks. You have to try and practice for maybe an hour or half an hour everyday. For reading, you have to read everyday and read harder and harder books to get better. For writing, you have to write at least a few pages in that novel that you are working on for it to at least get slowly longer.
Second of all, although it is not needed, talent helps. What you need to do is find your talent and give it a shot to see if you like it. It is not all that hard, really; just try everything to see what you really enjoy doing because talent is not whether you are good at something, it is whether you enjoy doing it. Give playing the flute or the bass a shot – or any other musical instrument you can think of; piano, guitar, violin, viola, harp, trumpet, fife, clarinet, almost anything really. Give writing poetry some time in your day. Give singing a shot. Give it all a shot; there is no way that you can lose except that you do not do anything.
Third of all, what you need is heart. This is most important because without heart you will not be able to be diligent. You will not be able to even find what you like if you do not have passion in what you are doing. Sure, you can still do something without passion, but it won’t have that intensifying quality that something with passion does. In music and singing, you will be able to hear the passion of the musician as the sounds dance in your eardrums. In writing, you will be able to feel the passion of the ink on the paper as the story envelopes you to no end. In dancing, you will not want to stop watching them or else you will want dance along with them if they have passion.
Now, once you have all of these three things you are ready and you are good at what you do diligently, with talent, and with passion. This is true no matter how much someone criticizes you. I am not going to say that you are the best at what you do in the world or that you should act snobby towards others because you can do something well that they cannot do well just yet – since they could just as easily do it better than you do later on. What I am saying is that as long as you have persistence, talent, and passion in what you do, than you are, at the very least, decent.
One last thing for all of you readers, though. There is one last requirement that I saved for the very last. Fourth and last of all, you must try and get better at what you do. Do you just want to stay ‘decent’ all your life? No, of course not. You want to get better and better and better and better still as life goes on. For writers, this means a whole lot of editing in stories, essays, and poems. For musicians, this means playing and playing over and over again until you get that song right. For singers, that means singing and singing over and over again until you are satisfied with your own voice several times over – though I suggest that you drink lots of water and take a break every now and then so you do not lose your voice.
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"Severus Snape's man-purse is a portal to a made-up world called Middle-Earth." - irony is my game
Yes, I quoted myself. But you have to admit it is funny.
 irony is my game · Thu Jul 05, 2007 @ 01:07am · 0 Comments |
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