What talents do you wish you had?

[terrya]

With apologies to Lynne in modifiying her post:

What talents do you wish you had?

I wish I could play the piano. I always wished I had that talent.

[Lavender Brown]

1. I wish I could draw

I also wish I could dance better.

[skypilot]

2. I wish I could speak several languages.

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[SarahB]

4. Me too.

At least bilingual. I know I can learn, but fluency is tough unless you begin from an early age.

[SoDesuKa]

9. I Can Do That

Who can explain why God gives out talents in such odd configurations? I pick up languages totally effortlessly and I've studied a lot of them. It's never done me a bit of good.

My brother has a green thumb. If he plants it, it grows!

[skypilot]

12. Never done you a bit of good?!?!

Maybe it hasn't so far but with globalization and everything I'm sure your abilities will come in handy. I envy you.

On edit: And I see on your profile that you live in New York. Being able to speak several languages while living in New York sounds like a great thing to me.

[SoDesuKa]

17. Actually, It Impresses People

I learned Italian in California, where it isn't as status-y as it is in New York. Italo-Americans who still speak the language bug out when I can understand them.

[bigwillq]

18. You can learn (nt)

[redqueen]

3. Dance

I want to learn ballroom dancing. Latin especially. Tango, samba, etc.

[SoDesuKa]

5. Making Money

My daughter inherited her money-making talent from her mother's side of the family. She's never had any of the financial issues that always threaten to swamp me.

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. I wish I could do something that would ensure that I'd never leave home.

I think we all know what that something is, without my going into further detail.

[Beware the Beast Man]

11. Get Marilyn Manson surgery.

As the old urban myth goes, have a couple ribs removed. It was nice knowing you...

[Terran]

28. That was my first thought also

when I saw this thread title.

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. Writing and art.

I have a ton of creative vision, but, with the exception of music, lack outlets for my ideas. I've had a book idea for years, but I'm not the best or most disciplined writer.


Edited twice for sentence structure. See? Told you I was a bad writer...

re-re-re-re edit: is "butlack" a word???

[eyesroll]

8. I'm not really looking for talent, just traits

I wish my sense of balance was better.
I wish I could sing on anything resembling key.
I wish I was better at turning acquaintences into friends.

I am trying to turn an interest in humor writing into a talent, though -- I'm kind of scattershot. I can produce good, short pieces on occasion, but I can't do it consistently, or for more than a few hundred words at a time. I'm working on that.

[redqueen]

14. For balance

Have you considered martial arts? I was a total klutz, but with practice anyone can improve. Just a suggestion. :)

As for your humor writing, you seem perfect for a humorous editorial every so often... have you sent any in?

[eyesroll]

15. So I've heard (re: martial arts).

Part of it is inner-ear stuff, but I think I probably could at least get better, if not good.

I have a Web log, and it's soon going to move to my own site, and I'll be including more humor there. I have had one piece (about the morning-after pill) published in a now-defunct alt weekly.

I like the autobiographical/confessional stuff, and it seems to work; I've just got to hone it some more.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[VOX]

10. To pick up a fiddle and play bluegrass like I'd been doing it for 30 years

Just for starters, anyway -- :)

[soleft]

13. I wish I could sing

I can carry a tune and people don't run screaming into the night when I sing - even at Karaoke - but I really wish I could sing well, with a good vocal range.

[devilgrrl]

16. I wish I could sing like Dusty Springfield...

and play guitar like Andres Segovia

[bigwillq]

19. Probably to be able to sing

I love singing and sing all the time but I'm awful.

[liontamer]

20. I wish I could sing, draw, or be organized

[mopaul]

21. tact

and decorum

[BlackVelvetElvis]

22. I wish I was good at math.

I don't even know my multiplication tables.
Damn calculators make me lazy.
The concept of physics fascinates me and I wish I could understand it.

[truthbetold]

23. I've ALWAYS wanted...

To be athletic. But alas, I have no coordination. It'd be nice to be able to play sports well.
Musically, I can do it all. Play piano, guitar, sing. I can write poetry and stories.
But something like shoot hoops? Nope. Oh, do I wish.

[DS1]

24. Appearing interested, feigning happy to see someone, general

politeness towards others, compassion towards the slow, convincing bootlicking, etc etc.

[Carolina]

25. me too

I think it would be such a creative and relaxing outlet to be able to sit and play music on the piano

[DrWeird]

26. Invisibility.

Then those chiropodists would pay dearly, I can tell you!

[Dukkha]

27. Speed Reading

I'd love to read an entire novel in 30 minutes.

[greblc]

29. Faith Healer (for real)

I'm not a Church goer but I was watching this Faith healer on Television.
I was laughing up a storm. Then I thought what If ? I'd walk down the street
knocking people over with a gently placed hand to the forehead. "ZZzZaP! Praise be to who ever gave me this power, glad to have helped you! Amen!"

I'd insist that my power work on Metal Health issues as well. I might even be
persuaded to heal GWB of his Conservatism.

Or maybe I could just wish for tallent enough to get a job with a Good Healthcare Plan.