I was listening to Rihanna the other day on the radio and her hit song umbrella came to mind. I remembered reading that she did not write the song and she was even skeptical about the “ella - ella” chant which made the song famous because she felt it might be too cheesy.

What struck me a few seconds later was that this famous lady neither wrote the song, nor produced the beats. All she did was sing someone’s words over another person’s beats and then she later took home a Grammy that year. This makes me question what her musical talent really is. The more I look into it, read Wikipedia pages and music blogs I realize that Rihanna is a musician engineered by Jay Z and some other people. We have this misconception that most musicians are diamonds found in the rough, we feel many of the people we see on TV worked so hard and had sleepless nights and finally made it to the top, we forget to see that many of these people were engineered to the top.

There are traits in the world that we think come to happen due to some cosmic calculation that we have no power over. Hapinness, love, fame, wealth, epidemics are all things we are told that happens to some people and doesn’t happen to some because that’s the way the world is. When we realize that with the right information you can make any of these things happen for you, you realize what it really means to decide your own fate. You are not tied down by your talents or interests, you are free to imagine how EXACTLY you want your life to be and make it happen, when they say the sky is the limit, armed with the information you need to do what you want to do your only real limit is your imagination.