Regarding Talent: Luck Smiled at the boy the most Unexpected Moment
The appreciators of his gift did what he was worth most.
Dillon Helbig, an eight year-old second-helder from Idaho, couldn’t even think that the product of his imagination could bring him so much fame and recognition. The boy just decided to try his luck, and didn’t miscalculate.
Dillon slipped his 81-page notebook on the shelf of his school library and left. Yet, it wasn’t a regular diary. The Adventures of Dillon Helbig's Crismis(THe last written with a mistake) where the boy described his adventures, or imagined those, were accompanied by illustrations that were Dillon’s handiwork.
On the next day, when he returned to take his notebook, he couldn’t find it on the shelf. The boy thought that someone had thrown it away, yet, the story took a sharp twist. Turned out that the librarian Alex Hartman had found it, and reading the whole story, considered it quite extraordinary to get rid of it. Dillon writes about how the star burnt out on the Christmas tree, or about his ejection over the North Pole.
The library staff considered Dillon’s work worthy enough to be part of their collection and added it to the catalog.
Yet Dillon's fame was still waiting for him.
After he told his story to the KTVB channel, at least 55 people got in the queue to get his “Christmas Adventures”.