So recently I have been thinking about what my cutie mark would be and that got me thinking what gifts I posses and how it would be best to use them.

I always thought finding your gift would just happened and that I would just "Know" but it took a few days thought and practice before I discovered my greatest talent, encouraging people.But that got me thinking about how I would use it and how the ponies in the show use there gifts.

From this I think that the show gets over really nicely that you can use your gifts from both good and evil the prime example being;

Twilight and Trixie. Although you could say Twilight was more magically gifted, both of them have a special talent in magic, however they both use there talents in vastly different ways. Twilight helps and protects other and all of here friends, where Trixie only seeks to humiliate others and use her gifts for her own selfish ends (and we all see how that turns out ). We also see this with Discord (but he gets reformed woop!).

And from this I realized that although I could build people up with my own gift, in the same way I could also use it to be hurtful to other people. This can be shown best when critiquing people work, I can give complements and nice helpful improvements or I could completely destroy the artist and tear there work to bits.

Overall I will strive to encourage and help people the best I can (just like how the ponies all strive to use there gifts for the good of others), I also love the depth of the show and how I had never even seen this before this week !

Also tell me about your own cutie marks and how you use your gifts and abilities here:

http://mlpforums.com/topic/56311-whats-your-cutie-mark-and-talent-and-how-do-you-use-it/

Thanks for reading !