Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.
I was never a prodigy.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
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