Am I Gifted Or Smart?

To answer the question that I constructed on my mind, my answer will be none of the above. Foremost, I'm aware that I can't do this all of my progress if I won't exert more effort. When I was a kid, I envy my classmates since they can perfect the exam without doing some reviews. How about me, naman? In my case, if I wanted to create a good result on the exam, I obviously need to review for a better result.

Personally, I didn't born with high intelligence. I remember that my mother told me when I was in the elementary that I have slow progress in speaking verbally until I reached the year of being a toddler. And also, she stated that she was losing her patience to me every time I can't pronounce a syllable properly. Contrarily, I assume that I'm not gifted, which you are finding in an individual.

During my pre-school years, I remember that I haven't got any places in our class. My cousin is in the third place, but I can't even step to the fifth spot. But when I reached Kindergarten, I'm glad since I reached the 4th place where my parents were proud about me. Then during my elementary days, I moved to to the private school. To be honest, I feel like my brain capacity was not yet enough. But in God's grace, I was able to attain Top 5, Top 9, and Top 4 while I was still in the private school. I don't know what happened during my Grade 4 years which one of my worst year as a student.

And when I transferred to the public school since my sibling is already studying, I'm still unexpected that I got the second place among the forty plus students. When I was in private, we are only less than twenty-five students,, but I didn't expect the big volume of students in public schools. That's the reason they pushed me to move to a higher section, and that's one of my mother's dream to me. By interacting and getting along with those intelligent people, I confirmed that I'm not smart. I just get moved on that section as I'm industrious.

Believe it or not, I never see myself as a smart or a gifted one because I'm just diligent on passing. Back to my first year high school days, I have a friend where you can easily see his potential. Every time the teachers are discussing, he's super attentive. But in terms of school works and quizzes, he's not that excellent since he's lazy to submit on deadlines. Up to now, we have a communication, but we are not that close like before.

If you ask me, I can say that I'm just in the middle. Not that diligent, but not that smart. Just in the neutral phase. I know to myself that I'm not that intelligent, but I'm keen on the lessons since I'm certain that it will be my key to answer the exams. I'm also reviewing my notes, and I used that kind of habit until the pandemic came.

In short, I never proclaim myself as a smart or gifted type of individual. However, I can just say that I'm just industrious or masipag in Tagalog term since takot lang talaga ako sa deadline. Apparently, that's the reason I'm seeing a bit of progress on what do I want to achieve haha.

In my daily articles, I admit that I'm not that good enough where my construction of my sentences are still lacking. But by just being masipag, I can do better. This article was actually inspired from Ruffa Mae Quinto clip on one of her movies, but I just forgot to copy the link.

That's why I believed that even you are not gifted in terms of intelligence, you can still aim your goals if you are capable enough to stick with your desired goals. Practice makes perfect. Sorry for messy article as always.