After 33 Years of a Meaningless Existence, I Discovered the True Meaning of Life in Just One Day

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In a recent article, I wrote,

• Michael Jordan was once a kid who had never voted a ball.
• Picasso was once a child who had never touched a paintbrush.
• Usain Bolt was once a child who couldn’t walk and only crawled.
• Stephen King was once a child who could neither read nor write.

To establish that everyone has Michael Jordan’s ability at something.

But a reader asked me, “What if you are born without remarkable talent?”

Fair question.

Here is the answer.

At age 8, I thought I was born without talent.

At school, after the vacations, we kids told each other what we had done in the summer.

Some kid spoke about their vacations at Disneyland.

Me, about my grandfather's village. A place with more cows than humans. And people called me a liar.

I was good at telling stories; that was my gift, but I thought it was a defect, that I…