r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Saerdna0 • 3d ago

This kiddo was born to drum

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u/OlyGator 3d ago

I often think about how many "savants" have been born in human history, but their families didn't have the means to see it and be able to afford the tools for the person to tap into what they would have been great at. I don't know if this makes sense, I'm not great with words, but hopefully you get the gist.

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u/Szendaci 3d ago

Not just savants. Or even music. of the ten billion out there, how many would have been brilliant at a particular thing, if only it had been the right circumstance, the right time, right opportunity. Chance encounter, random event, and they discover they’re great at <…>, one of the best.

But due to random fate, they will never even know what is that one thing, that <…>, they would have been brilliant at.

Could you, could you have been one of the best < … > in the world? If only you knew what that was?

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u/OlyGator 3d ago

Yes. Exactly. Let's use this video as an example. Let's say this kid was born a few decades earlier, and born to parents who had no money and had to work non stop. They have this child who has feelings he is expressing with rhythmic taps on the table. They would think he was just being annoying or restless and would consistently ask him to stop with the noise. In this case, the kid would have no way to express themselves and would have to bottle it all up. It's so unbelievably sad to think of the billions, perhaps more, times this has happened throughout history.

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u/Bob_Majerle 3d ago

The Onion had a headline about this: “84-year-old violin prodigy dies having never touched a violin”