Hard work only earns you sympathy.

Umer Baloch
3 min readNov 26, 2020

The museums of Europe faced unusual things, once a man with a bag entered a museum. Guard did not pay heed to it as what you take inside of the museum is not important but what you take outside of it, it really matters. After entering the museum he found a room filled with historical and worthy paintings on its walls. He then found an empty space between the historical paintings and took something out from his bag; it was a painting too but not historical it was his own painting. Then he placed his own painting between the historical paintings. He was a thief but of a different kind, he did not steal the paintings he stole the places of the top museum’s walls for his paintings.

He was later discovered by a guard but then suddenly many museums of Europe claimed that they also have paintings of this anonymous artist on their walls too. The anonymous man was the great Banksy who stole the places on the walls and hanged his paintings on them. That is how Banksy’s produced works reached the world, he was the one who used to paint street arts and he is now considered as the father of street art. On the streets of Europe, he painted a lot of rebellious arts that is why he hid and did not show his face in public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

Banksy's art traveled beyond the borders and reached almost every corner of the world, he became the sign of inspiration. And in 2010 he won a place with the then president of United States of America Mr. Barrak Obama in Times’ 100 most influential people of the world. But he also did not send his face’s picture to Times magazine instead he sent them his picture by covering his face with painted cotton. Banksy was a film director content maker and an artist and no one can skip him whilst thinking about art. The world does not know the face of Banksy but the name will be known forever. Might be Banksy believed in the formula of “ that if you want to be happy: be rich, healthy and anonymous”.

Banksy’s image posted in Times’ 100 most influential people of 2010.

But the question is how he became one of the most influential artists in the world that later Museums were willing to have his paintings on their museum walls and considered this as an honor?

The answer is obvious, Banksy had the art of representing his talent and art to the world. And through his representation, he forced the world to appreciate his art and his talent. If Banksy had not posted his paintings on the walls of the museums of Europe he would have not achieved this much name fame and wealth. The graveyards are full of talented people but no one pays heed to them because they are unable to represent themselves. The world does not care about your hard work, sleepless nights, and no days off workouts, it only cares about your way of representation. They focus on how you come up with your own art of selling your talent. Your hard work can only earn you sympathy but your art of selling your talent, way of representing yourself, and your talents can earn you name fame and wealth.

Dunky is one of the most hard-working animals in the world but the lion has is considered the king of the jungle. There are a lot of animals who are intelligent than lion and there are also animals who are powerful than lion. But they do not have the art of representing themselves like lion. That is why the whole world appreciates lion. And I can bet there are a lot of people who can play better football than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo but why they are dominating the famous game. A lot of people wait for miracles to come and make them famous overnight but we all know what will be their future. So learn to represent yourself and learn to rule.

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