You can't really say that anyone has wasted their talents. A talent is a gift, something bestowed rather than worked for. If it comes attached to an obligation, or it would not be a gift, but a payment in advance, or bribe.
A talent should never be a duty. Just because someone can draw fluently, sing like an angel or move like Bojangles, does not mean that they should devote their lives to doing so for the entertainment and elevation of others if what they really, really want is to sit in a hole watching reruns of Bilko, Cheers, Soap, Frasier and The Simpsons, plus the complete works of Laurel and Hardy – and indeed who could blame me?
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