Confidence as a privilege

Confidence is the bridge from talent and hardwork to success. People with confidence can many a times very easily get away with a lot of shortcomings. I am not to say whether it is unfair, that talented people are left behind just because they are lacking in confidence. This is a reality of life and this world and there is no sense in debating whether the significance accorded to confidence is justified or not. Now, what brings this confidence and what is a reasonable / moral source for it? Money, beauty, fame among other materialistic things are some things confidence follows very commonly. It is very easy to be confident if you are rich, powerful, beautiful, famous. The people who are not any of these - the populace, are obviously and perhaps justifiably annoyed. They do not have the luxury (confidence is surely a luxury as it makes things in life easy) that they see others enjoying - that sounds a lot like jealousy. Then again who ever said that the world is fair, it is quite obvious to be compassionate to the cause of the poorer / weaker side - but then, the other side is not really one with any malice.

So I would say the practice is wrong but it does not mean that those benefitting from it need to be made a scapegoat. Now for example being a person of beauty does make you the centre of attention and you feel a sense of power through this. This in turn makes you confident to face the world. But the fact remains that within that person is a regular person who has dreams, aspirations, talent and fears. The problem is that they walk through their life focusing on other things and let their fears be sidelined. So they are not as mature to face challenges that are thrown their way. This in no way means that they are not deserving. They are just as deserving as anyone else. And the fact that they have had that help so far and had chances plentiful should in fact make it easier for them to do anything without needing to rely on their beauty. It is alas a bit too easy, in this case, to be oblivious to other things.

The more important thing is that everyone should be confident of his/her abilities. No matter what other gift have been bestowed upon them. If confidence is a chain reaction that eventually leads you to achieve something, it does not actually matter if the start of the reaction was from something fake as long as there is enough substance in you to keep the reaction going forever. The idea is not to think where the confidence comes from, any source is a good source, the bad thing is over-reliance on it. It is always better to have something, but having the ability to survive without it is important. Once you get there, there is no harm in enjoying all luxuries that come your way.