"Most people go to their graves with their music still inside them..."

Borrowed from "The Music Within". It is an OK sort of movie but it's this quote that probably meant I didn't completely waste those minutes. Given by Oliver Wendell Holmes, a famous physician plus author (and of course! I didn't know that before the movie).

In the movie, a professor is trying to make the kids understand what this means. He goes on to mention that: Most people die without discovering their own genius, without expressing their uniqueness that makes them special. I couldn't agree more.

Earlier in the day, I was having this debate about a careless remark someone made "Creativity doesn't really exist. Either all of us are creative or none of us." Being high on the Beethoven fever (I saw a movie about him recently), I fought back vehemently stating that only few people are capable of doing what Beethoven did, or for that matter Mozart or Van Gogh or Einstein or Vinci etc. How could we possibly be equally gifted in this 'creativity'!
But reflecting back, Why not! It might just be that all of us are born with some music, some unprecedented spark, but we probably never care to check. We find it so comforting to believe in our 'non-greatness', in our mediocrity, that we rather not push. We rather just live, a nice safe life, devoid of music from within. Sounds sensible enough!
But still the fact, that the statistics of such deaths of talent and of brilliance is overwhelming, is not a good sign. May be a sign of increased GDP growth but definitely not a sign of development.