No talent? Nothing important to show off?

I say: Good.

This sets you up for something much more satisfactory. Something more worthwhile.

That is the ability to trust in one thing and one thing only: Yourself.

When all is lost. When they are all gone. When there is no one—absolutely no one.

You have only one thing.

No god. No ancestor. No angel. Nothing but your pure drive to make it through to another day.

I repeat: when there is no one, when they are all gone, all you have is yourself.

Yourself is the only true god, the true strength, the only true reality there is.

Hold on to self. Cultivate self. The "I" in everything.

The "I" in all is consciousness. And without consciousness, all is lost.

One task, and one task only: take care of self, and all shall follow.