Musing over a bottle of Jarl (pronounced 'Yarl)

This is my tipple at the world famous Inn. The bottled version is pleasant but not a patch on the draft cask (real ale) version.  I’ve always wanted to be good at something. The only things I’ve ever been any good at are running, songwriting and probably short story writing. Occasionally a kind person will tell me I am talented. But it seems to me that you mostly become good at something by working at it. Yet I’ve never won a race, never had a hit, and never been commercially published. Does it matter? Sometimes.