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What talen DON"T you have that you wish you DID?

Amber St. Clare

Amber St. Clare

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I CANNOT sing. The only way I can carry a tune is if it's in a bag. It doesn't stop me, I sing along with anyone--Striesand, Celine, Celtic Thunder, even Edith Piaf {I sing phonetically, I DON"T know French but the emotion in her songs is universal}. My family begs me to stop but I get a lot of pleasure from singing.

What is a talent you don't posess but wish you did?
 
There are so many. :bigsmile:

I really, really want to be an artist but I have NO artistic abilities. None. I can't even make a stick figure look good. In my mind though, I'm the next Monet. On paper or canvas, yeah, not so much.
 
Amber St. Clare said:
I CANNOT sing. The only way I can carry a tune is if it's in a bag. It doesn't stop me, I sing along with anyone--Striesand, Celine, Celtic Thunder, even Edith Piaf {I sing phonetically, I DON"T know French but the emotion in her songs is universal}. My family begs me to stop but I get a lot of pleasure from singing.

What is a talent you don't posess but wish you did?
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any YouTube link??...i want to hear you sing.. :lol:
 
I wish I could write creatively but I have about an ounce of imagination and that doesn't take me very far.
 
I have terrible handwriting. I've always wished I could write things in a pretty or cute way, and no matter how hard I try it always looks like a child did it.

I have zero hand-eye coordination. I am a fairly good dancer, but that's the extent of my athleticism.
 
I'm a good singer, a good dancer and have excellent penmanship.

But for the life of me, I cannot ski!!

I also wish I could play a musical instrument.

Oh and parallel park :sick:
 
I wish I was one of those organized people that has a place for everything. My organization skills include stuffing stuff into a drawer while chanting, "If I can't see it, it doesn't exist!"
 
I wish I could sing. That's the one.
 
I wish I had the talent of making money. ;))
 
To sing!
 
I cannot sing, am not artistic and suck at sports. I also always lose at video games, cannot bowl to save my life and have become so terrified of falling off a bike that I can't even ride one anymore. :o
 
Tap dancing.
 
I always wanted to learn to play a musical intrument, also am surrounded by artists and I have not a artistic bone in my body. I love to garden and always have to consult with my artistic family members about space and scale cause I just do not have the eye. :(sad
 
Amethyste said:
I wish I had the talent of making money. ;))
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ditto!!!!!!
 
Well, I really really can't dance at all. I mean at all. I would never ever dance in public! I'm just awfully uncoordinated.

Also it's not a talent per se, but I'd love to be able to tell left from right. Anytime I have to know quickly which is left and which is right, it's disastrous. And weirdly enough my mom and all her sisters are the exact same way. We're all banned from giving directions in cars and whatnot.

And both of those things managed to brew a really exponentially unpleasant few weeks in college. I attended an art college that had fine arts, design, dance, and theatre all together. So I thought I'd brave it and take a dance elective for non dance majors. (I'm really not sure *what* I was thinking, except maybe it was one of the only things that fit my schedule?)

First of all, it was packed full of theatre students that had all taken jazz dance many times before, and I was the only true beginner. And the teacher would, you know, tell you go go left or right. And I'd be standing there scratching my head trying to figure out which way was left, and of course I'd immediately I'd go the wrong way and crash into a miffed theatre student. It was really really horrid, probably not just for me but for the theatre kids I trampled too. I even tried writing L and R on my socks. Didn't help, I'd just put them on backwards or forget to look at them. I dropped it after two weeks of torture, I'm sure to everyone else's intense relief too.
 
One of my friends cannot tell left from right. She cannot drive, but can give directions while you are driving if you watch her hands. She can point the proper direction.

I can write fiction fairly well, but have no understanding of coordination, fashion or music. I wish I could dance, sing, or play an instrument.
 
I wish I was naturally athletic and enjoyed sports, because there is much to be gained from them, but I have hated sports from my childhood. I'm actually a natural klutz.

I would love to have serious organizational skills, but nada. I'm a "piler", not a filer. ;))

However, I do have many of the artistic skills the many here would like to have - the color sense, natural drawing ability, penmanship, and musical ability, so maybe I shouldn't complain. We all get something so....

ETA - Oh, and I DO wish I'd had the sticktoitiveness (great word, eh?) to become an instrumentalist, but I'm lazy and only wanted to carry around the one in my throat. I wish I'd learned piano...young. I read music, but painstakingly. And I wish I could sight-sing, but I have to THINK about the intervals too much to be quick enough. Of course, you have to practice these things, so I have no one to blame but me, right?
 
I wish I had more of the Martha Stewart-ish homemaker in me, a better eye for decorating. I wish I could sing and play the guitar.
 
Play the piano!!! Especially when I was studying for my BA (music, vocal) being able to play the piano would have been great! Man, in HS and college social settings, the people with the piano skills were good to go. *sigh*
 
I wish I could sing too. I also wish I had some sort of athletic ability. I am afraid of the ball no matter what kind it is and I have no coordination. DH says that it is hilarious to watch me run.

I really wish I had more of a homemaker sense. I know what colors I like and things like that, but for the life of me I cannot figure out window treatments. I just cant get with it. The windows that are visible to company have just regular curtains and the rest just have blinds. I dont even know where to start!
 
I wish I could dance. I really do. I just do not have the body coordination for dancing.
 
I wish I could play guitar really really well so that I could ACTUALLY rock out... sometimes air guitar doesn't suffice!
 
I don't know if it's a talent but I'd love to have a better memory. I can remember things for work and exams and stuff, but when it comes to recalling who said what, where I put my keys or who I met last week it's embarassingly poor.

I also can't tell my left from my right quickly. Most females I know complain of the same problem!

I'd like to be more organised too.

I'd love to be artistic. You know those talented people who have an eye for things, who can put lovely outfits together and make rooms look beautiful and can draw things that they see in their minds eye. I can't do any of that ;))
 
I'm another one who wishes I was a great singer (it's amazing how many of us chose this one - there must be some primal need to express ourselves vocally).

The sad thing is that I'm not a bad singer (think Fiona Apple) and I studied voice a little in college (I was primarily a pianist & dancer) but I totally freeze if I'm singing in public solo, and I'm just not as good as I wish I was.

My second wish would have been to be a great ballerina or modern dancer. I studied dance for years also, but I've got more of a Christina Hendricks body type, very busty, and you really can't be a dancer & be busty.
 
I wish I were artistic! I'm artistically inept. I wish I could do something, even if it was crafty things, not necessarily drawing and normal "art". Doing crafts seems like fun, but everything I do looks like a 5 year old did it.

I also wish I was good at languages. I've attempted to learn 3 languages in my life and sucked at all of them. I'm very good at English at least :rodent: I've always been good at learning school subjects, but languages I just didn't get.

eta: Can I add hand eye coordination and athleticism? I lack depth perception when it comes to throwing and catching things, and asthma makes it hard for me to run around too much. I don't want to be a star athlete, but it would be nice to be on a softball league with my friends or something, or be able to run a 5k without having to train for 2 years first. Also, DH is really athletic (like, scary athletic) and I wish we could do more things together - like hike up a mountain without me getting asthma attacks every 100ft and having to stop, or play a pick up game of tennis where I could actually hit the ball back (he's played 3 times in his life but can hang in a game with our friends who play every week; I can't even return the ball). I wish I had this skill!
 
Dance. I really really wish I could dance. I always wanted to dance. I begged and begged as a child to take ballet classes. But I have CP (hemiplegia on the left side) and my parents wouldn't sign me up. It's not out of malice, they do realise in hindsight that it really would have helped with balance, coordination, dexterity, strength, etc. I guess in they minds they were trying to protect me. I love to watch So You Think You Can Dance and I admire the dancers so much.

However, I have a very good musical ear and I have a talent for music, especially brass instruments and singing. I probably would be as good with other instruments if I didn't have dexterity issues with my left hand. I should really take up the trumpet again!
 
Alchemy
 
Dancing Fire said:
Amber St. Clare said:
I CANNOT sing. The only way I can carry a tune is if it's in a bag. It doesn't stop me, I sing along with anyone--Striesand, Celine, Celtic Thunder, even Edith Piaf {I sing phonetically, I DON"T know French but the emotion in her songs is universal}. My family begs me to stop but I get a lot of pleasure from singing.

What is a talent you don't posess but wish you did?
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any YouTube link??...i want to hear you sing.. :lol:
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Trust me, you don't. Think bleeding ear drums
 
I wish I could sew. My mom always makes her own clothes whenever she can't find something she's looking for. She was a fashion design major so she can even make her own patterns. Somehow I never had the urge to learn from her, and now that she lives half way around the world, I wish I'd had the patience to learn from her when I lived at home. Sometimes I'd see an outfit that would be "perfect" if the sleeves where less full, or the hips taken in a tad or the hem just 2" shorter. But I'd pass on it because if I'm going to get it, I'd need to get it altered just right, and if I could do it myself, it'e be a no-brainer.
 
ksinger said:
ETA - Oh, and I DO wish I'd had the sticktoitiveness (great word, eh?) to become an instrumentalist, but I'm lazy and only wanted to carry around the one in my throat. I wish I'd learned piano...young. I read music, but painstakingly. And I wish I could sight-sing, but I have to THINK about the intervals too much to be quick enough. Of course, you have to practice these things, so I have no one to blame but me, right?
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I have the exact same problems!
 
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