How Simple Encouragement Revealed My Hidden Talent

Encouraging people is an essential part of being a human. One should encourage people with which they live such as one’s family, peer groups or society. Here I want to write about my latent talent and in this essay I will explore this story through personal experience. Also, via this story you will be able to understand the importance of encouragement in someone's life. 

Everyone is making the best efforts in their lives and sometimes few kind words of encouragement can aid people realizing that their effort is not vain and they are not alone. Furthermore, encouragement recognizes the good things people do, and make them do more of it willingly. So now I will write about an incident of my life which makes me realize my latent talent and also provided me with the dream to hone my talent. It happened when I was in the fifth standard in my school, back when I was a very shy and introvert type of person. I do not have many friends outside of my school.

It happened on the day when there was a drawing competition at my school. All the classes are allowed to participate up to 8th standard. The theme is given to us all was the fight of “Kargil”. So we all started brainstorming to get some creative idea. Everyone started drawing something on their canvas and I was still busy trying to think of something which can bring out my thought and emotions. While doing this I was kind of lost in another world when my science teacher called my name it brought me back to my senses. I responded to her voice which was coming from the back. She was standing there and I was not even aware that for how long she has been observing me. She came to me and encouraged me by saying that “do not think too much over it, just put whatever comes in your mind on canvas. And do your best, you will do well”. I listened to her words of wisdom and started my painting. Soon the bell rang announcing the end of the time limit and we all submitted out canvas for inspection. Next day, after the Morning Prayer the names of the winner of the competition were announced in front of the whole school. I was really surprised to hear my name as the 1st runner up and winning the second prize. It was a bolt from the blue for me as I never even dreamed to even get any complimentary prize.

Later, I thanked my science teacher for her words of encouragement and showing her confidence in me. To which she said that”a painting worth a thousand words, it was your painting which fetches you this achievement”. Overall, that day, I become aware of my talent and I try making more painting whenever I get free time. Sometimes I think that if not for her words of encouragement I would have never acknowledged the talent I possessed.