If we are in a situation where we can’t develop our talents what can we do?

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So if we are in a family where we are not allowed to explore much and we can’t discover our talents what should we do? See we have to know that our relationship is with Krishna. We have relationship with parents with our social circle but ultimately it is also with Krishna.
So you know if Krishna has given us talents he will give us the facility to discover and develop the talents also. So we sometimes are put in circumstances where we may not be able to do certain things but that doesn’t mean that those circumstances are negligent or those who are people around us they are like they are suppressing our talents or they are against us. So we all are sometimes constrained by our circumstances.
We accept that but if we feel that we have certain talents or we will be able to explore something we rather than resenting the situation we are in we can focus more on praying to Krishna. We will pray to Krishna, Krishna will guide us in a situation where I think one of the most famous one of the famous batsman of England is actually a football player and he had gone for a football match and the football match got cancelled and at that time a cricket match was also going on in the next ground and one cricket player got injured. So they told why don’t you play over here.
He said I have never played cricket I am not interested in cricket. He said no just play and he came into a bat and he hit a century. His first time he played cricket and then people know he is so talented in cricket and you are a mediocre football player.
He said you play this and he will become an international cricket player. So you know his parents didn’t plan it that way. I don’t remember the name I think.
Does anyone else know? I have it somewhere I read it long ago. So the point is that there is what is called as serendipity. Serendipity means accidental discovery of something good by accident.
So we should know that we are not always products of our circumstances. Even if certain circumstances restrict us if we pray to Krishna, Krishna will guide us to rise above the circumstances. See it’s not that just by exploration there is discovery because you know that way there are hundreds of things to explore in life.
We just spend our life exploring only. But if there is something to be discovered Krishna