I agree with you Hive account@dana-edwards.
It is very sad to see so many people not use their talents (good genetics) because they want better circumstances and just many excuses what I call it.
I think in life we should be doing everything and I mean everything the best possible way we can with no excuses or feeling ungrateful for the things we do have because we are looking at the things we don't have. For example: if I had this, or if I lived there, of if I knew the right people, or if I had a rich family etc. these are just excuses.
If you have a talent or a dream inside of you it is there for a reason, but the sad thing is most of us die with these dreams and talents inside. Like they say, the richest and the wealthiest place on earth is in the graveyard since we were listening to the society which tells us how we should live and be all the same.
No matter what your circumstance is, if you use your talents and go for your dreams with everything you have, and God wants you to get there, you will get there and if not it is because God has a better plan for your life which include these talents, like maybe to made a difference in other peoples lives.
I think ungratefulness is the whole problem, since most of us are not grateful daily for our breathing hearts, our health, our families, our nature, our food, our water etc and we just live our busy lives chasing the dollar which in my vocabularity is not the wealth and the richeness.
Health is the true wealth and if you have that, you can do anything in your life.