What talent do you wish you had?

[*HeadlessBarbie]

When I was about 4 or 5 years old, I inherited an antique piano from a distant relative. It's a beautiful upright with some ornate carving and has actual ivory on it's keys.

My parents granted me piano lessons when I was around 7 or 8. I was so excited about them! My grandmother was a piano player and I wanted to sound just as good as her when I learned to play.

It wasn't meant to be. I took piano lessons for over 2 years, but never progressed much beyond beginner status, even though I tried. I can't read music at all, and my fingers are big, clumsy and weak.

I'd love to have musical talent, but it's just not in me.

 

[KingOrfeo]

In Marvel's New Mutants comic there once was a character called Cypher, whose mutant ability was learning any language in a very short time. I'd like that talent, fuck the laser-beam eyes and shit!

I'd also like the talent of Robert Heinlein's character Andy Libby, described as "an intuitive knowledge of mathematical relationships" -- like Rain Man's only better, and not hampered by autism.

 

[*HeadlessBarbie]

In Marvel's New Mutants comic there once was a character called Cypher, whose mutant ability was learning any language in a very short time. I'd like that talent, fuck the laser-beam eyes and shit!

I'd also like the talent of Robert Heinlein's character Andy Libby, described as "an intuitive knowledge of mathematical relationships" -- like Rain Man's only better, and not hampered by autism.

You just reminded me of how I failed 7th grade Spanish class. Thanks.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

One of life's tough lessons is the awareness that if you aint already doing it, it aint gonna never happen.

The very few things I have any talent for I was doing when I was a small child: drawing, reading, music, gardening, and assessing people.

I suppose I want an obsession for one of my small talents. I can do any of them half-assed without trying, and that's where it stops. I'm satisfied with half-assed.

 

[beetlebum]

i posses some very limited amount of music, visual art and culinary talent. but the fact that i diversify well between these affinities, kinda makes me proud! because i do it out of genuine love. i'm happy to be the half-assed anything that i really am.

 

[Adre]

1. To hit a major league slider over the centerfield fence in Yankee Stadium.
2. To write like E.B. White.
3. To play guitar like Mark Knopfler.

I know, I'm greedy.

 

[*HeadlessBarbie]

I'd rather not do something at all, rather than doing it half-assed.

 

[*HeadlessBarbie]

I'd rather not do something at all, rather than doing it half-assed.

Okay, I this statement back but only for practical reasons.

For example, I am not a good cook. I am very inconsistent with cooking, what I serve you might be delicious one time and lousy the next. However, it's not like I can just stop cooking altogether. Gratefully, my sons do most of our cooking, but I do have to chip in on occasion.

 

[pink]

I wish I could crochet better.
I wish I could knit.
I wish I could play guitar.

 

[planetqueen]

I would love to be brilliant at playing an instrument I love. I tried as a child and was crap.

Still, lots of things I am good at

 

[unregistered]

 

[hobbit.]

telekinetic arson.

 

[Batch]

ice skating
wait no... to play baseball and crack that bat like Babe Ruth.

 

[chillywilly2]

I want to be a better furniture maker...still working on it

 

[Tryharder62]

 

[Not Normal]

I'm a pretty talented musician and producer and engineer. I've spent my life (both personally and professionally) doing it. There are times when I wish I could just have the skill to work a "normal job" with set hours and benefits.

 

[SkAoUt]

I'd like to have a knack for languages in the next go round.

 

[*HeadlessBarbie]

I'm a pretty talented musician and producer and engineer. I've spent my life (both personally and professionally) doing it. There are times when I wish I could just have the skill to work a "normal job" with set hours and benefits.

I used to work in radio as a dj, but was far better at voice over work and production. the pay was lousy and I had little or no benefits, but I loved my job.

I now work at a "normal" job with decent enough pay and pretty damn good benefits. However, I have to force myself to get out of bed and drive to that wretched place that I hate with every fiber of my being, every morning, 5 days a week for the rest of my life.

 

[unregistered]

 

[KingOrfeo]

Given the nature of this board, it is surprising that nobody is yet wishing for a special talent for sex.

Or not so surprising. Wishing for it would imply you don't already have it.

 

[*HeadlessBarbie]

Be comforted by the fact that many have even less or none at all.

I am indeed comforted by that. I am fully aware that I am lucky to have a steady paycheck from a sturdy company.

 

[*HeadlessBarbie]

Given the nature of this board, it is surprising that nobody is yet wishing for a special talent for sex.

Or not so surprising. Wishing for it would imply you don't already have it.

Sex is severely over rated.

 

[bluemuse]

I wish that I could sing. My mother has a very good singing voice, but that talent was not passed on to me.

 

[Liar]

Given the nature of this board, it is surprising that nobody is yet wishing for a special talent for sex.

My sex skills are god level already.

I do wish I could play the piano thouigh.

 

[blackleggings]

I wish I could sing. I love music so much but just cannot carry a tune.