There are some things I do quite well. I am a very good cook. I am quite comfortable giving a talk or making a presentation. I enjoyed being a nurse and believe I was a good one, but there are some things I am totally unable to do. I could never dance or do anything requiring grace or rhythm. I could take dance lessons forever and would only end up embarrassing myself and my teacher. I can carry a tune, but have absolutely no musical talent. I have dreams that one day I will sit down at a piano and music will flow from my fingertips. The only way that will ever happens is if possibly lightning strikes me and scrambles my neurons, rendering me a different person. Foreign language and math are Greek to me, pun intended. I don’t even attempt to keep a checkbook. It’s good to know what works and what doesn’t.
I scrapped through chemistry by the skin of my teeth, almost blowing up the lab. Math didn’t interest me either and I’ve lived in India for 16 years and still don’t speak an Indian language. Indians think I just either didn’t try or am faking the fact I can’t speak at least one Indian language. I’m not faking. I’ve picked up a few words. If it bothered me I’d be upset but it doesn’t. Many Indians speak English so I haven’t been seriously handicapped. I’m at an age where I have other, more serious worries than what people think. I haven’t got time to worry about it. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Languages and music are comprehensible to me, even though I love words. I just can’t put it all together.
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I’ve had such a good laugh over this post and all the honest comments that followed. I won’t even venture into the fray as my list of talents is minuscule and it makes me wonder just what am I good at. With that forlorn thought, I’ll end by thanking you for following me Beth.
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You are so welcome!
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I’m good at but a few things, my favorites are sleeping and eating. 😀
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Hey, I didn’t even think of hose!
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Ha, I am so tone deaf that when I joined the chior in St. Mary’s when I was about ten (they accepted anyone who wanted to join) the nun after a couple of practices gently and quietly told me to just move my lips, and so I did. :o)
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I can’t do half the things you can do – but I can dance! (And I love keeping the accounts) It is good that talents and inclinations are distributed unevenly. I have signed up to learn public speaking as I have to do it this year and live in terror of it.
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Just pretend u r good. That helps
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Ah so nice to know I am not alone in the “I gotz no dance rhythm or skillz” club! So nice to have such esteemed members with me. 😉
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Maybe we can stomp grapes if we ever meet up!
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Lol yes, for sure!
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Do you sometimes dance by yourself?
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No, but I sing nonsense songs at the top of my lungs. Sometimes I garble the words or sing Spoonerisms instead of the right words. It is very entertaining.
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Love it!
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I’llbet you do, don’t you!
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I do. I sometimes dance in the middle of the park like a crazy woman…
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I’d love to do that but I’d probably bust my butt.
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We will have a dance somewhere sometime…
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I’ll sing and you dance!
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Okay, deal 😜
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I was about to say that if you get hit by lightning you could play Shock ‘n’ Roll, but then I realized that joke was unworthy of me so I abandoned it. I admire your ability with talks and presentations. It’s a useful skill to have.
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I don’t think it’s a skill. I think it’s more like I won’t shut up.
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Oh my – I’m laughing here. Love the ‘shock n roll’ Bun.
Apologies for interjecting Beth.
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Always welcome
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That explains why you’re such a good storyteller. You have a unique view of the world. If I have you figured out correctly–you’re not rattled easily. I like people up to the point my patience runs out–which in some cases is instantaneous.
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Oh no. I am more into being the rattler than the rattle! No one is off limits!
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I too would love to sit down at the piano and have music flow from my fingers! I would have to be struck by lightening too for that to ever happen.
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I know it will happen any day now!
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Hahahaha! Yes! That would be wonderful, wouldn’t it? LOL!
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You are among the most authentic folks I know. And the funniest…a natural humorist and storyteller. I’m proud to know you. ❤️ 💛 💙 💜
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Why thank you. I love that you said that!.
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I am glad that you are a bloody good writer and storyteller Linda, as you have the gift of bringing laughter to me and so many others 🙂
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Thank you. I am so glad we found each other.
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Me too! 🙂
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When I would sing lullabies my children would put their hands over my mouth.
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I went to bed with my little grandson one night and started snoring. He said I was sleeping too loud and made me move.
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It simply proves that each and every one of us are not perfect. There are things that we are actually genuinely doing good at it, but they’re also things that we really can’t be good even after thousand times of trying. But the best part of it, is we recognize the things that we are not proficient at.
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Boy, you got that right about not perfect!
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I have very poor sense of rhythm and no grace either (mind you, enough to know I don’t have it), I’m terrible at anything involving visual… In fact there’s no end to my non-talents!
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Maybe it would be Asher to list what we are bad at.
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Join the club!. I joined a Zumba class last week for the exercise and to hopefully get some rhythm, why I thought anything would change after all these years beats me. It hasn’t. I am never really bad at things, in fact I can do most anything, I’m just not very good at any one thing in particular. It’s like mediocrity dogs me.
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Ok then, you are good at mediocrity. I think you are a good writer with a great heart!
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I think it’s good to acknowledge that there are some things we’re not good at. Too many people think they should be able to do everything well, and then become frustrated when they can’t. Personally, I can play the piano, but I can’t carry a tune – and no one would want me to try. I also have never been able to dance, despite several people trying to teach me. I’ve learned to accept these minor shortcomings.
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Can’t be good at everything!
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Great post, ties in so well with the prompt. I can also totally relate to being good at some stuff and dense as a log with other things. That’s my life. lol
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I am bad at way more stuff than I am good at! It almost makes me proud.Well, I Never…
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Hahaha, that’s good to be proud of it. Be proud of whatever you are, right? 🙂
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Yep, I am good at that!
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Good for you!
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Lol I love the pun intended 🙂 I used to want to play the violin so bad…turns out that is not meant to be except for in my dreams or your lightening theory. I agree it’s good to know what works and what doesn’t…makes life much easier…for example just recently I realised after 2 months my last job was not going to work for me…at the job before that one, it took me 2 years to realise that wasn’t definitely not going to work…yay progress! lol
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I realized I wasn’t cut out to be a teacher when I told a mother her little bastard was driving me crazy.
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Lol!
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HaHA! Love it! 🙂
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It was a pretty good sign.
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