Talents You Wished Were Yours
 

I'm just putting a random question out there. I searched the threads but I didn't come up with anything.

Is there a talent that you wished you had, that you weren't graced with at birth?

If anything I would like to have the power to compose music and create it. I have the creativity and motivation but power to see it is out of my grasp. To be able to create music that others could enjoy would make me very happy.

What are yours?

The one talent I wish I had was to sing well.

I am always singing, but it is the most god-awful sound for others to endure.

I'd love to be able to play the guitar. That alone would be a feat in itself for me but I wanna be able to play the guitar like Django Reinhardt once did. Nobody has ever played the guitar like he did and I consider him the greatest guitarist of all time. If I were going for a more rock-like style then I'd like to play the guitar like Ygnwie Malsteen.

I wish I had Shin's ability to get right munted, fuck some fat broad, and then be proud of it in the morning.

I'd love to know sleight of hand. It's always cool to see in person and it's a great icebreaker. The fact that it tends to impress women is also quite appealing.

I want to play the violin.

Desperately.

:(

Every heterosexual male already has that ability built into them. It's just that some of us choose not to put it into practice, is all.

Apparently women also have this ability, hence the reason you two are able to consistently get laid.

That was a low blow and you know it. :(

Did I actually hurt your feelings?

I know its rather impossible, but I really wish I had the ability to move things with my mind. That would be rather cool. To just levitate my food from the counter to my table, or wherever I happen to be sitting. If I drop something, forget bending down, just levitate it up. At work, when the boss asks me to move lumber, just move it with my mind.

I dunno, probably to be able to do, Dead Scream through a pencil or be able to transform into to any character that I like, as in I actually have to like the character or be a newtype or do voice acting, I dunno I can't come with anthing good.

Fortunately for you I lack those "feeling" things you speak of.

This reminds me: I'd also love to be able to do metalcore vocals.

I wouldn't necessarily call it a talent, but the ability to be able to express things from my mind clearly, whether it is musical, artistic, or verbal. I would like to be able to translate whatever is in my mind perfectly onto a piece of paper.

I would love to have some athletic talent, even if a little. I'm just horrible at anything sports-related basically and it'd be nice to have some kind of inclination. I'm a good example of the standard nerd.

I'll own up. So fucking owned.

I wish I could draw. That's the one thing you couldn't just by practicing.

Yes you can. That's exactly how you get good at drawing.

I want to have the gift of gab. I have limited conversational skills, and can only express ideas eruditely by sitting down and taking time to cerebrate!

I'd wish I can make anyone laugh. Great to get chicks, too.

The ability to make new friends. Dunno why, I cannot just say hi directly to a new person around me. Lucky I didn't become a hikikomori.

I'm not sure why I can't sing well. I can do great voice impersonations and at times I can even do a little Sinatra-like Jazz Lounge type singing, but I guess that's one area I can't compete in. Ahh well.

I wish my vision wasn't as bad as aids, ebola, and sars combined. :(

Really, now.

I've always had a secret desire to be an opera singer. Never had the time or the wherewithal to train my voice to those levels, but it sure would be neat be able to just spontaneously burst into song.

I'm not certain that "eyes that properly do their job" is a talent.

I'd like to be a tenor instead of a damn bass. That's not a talent though...

I'd like to be talented at... Well that's hard because I'm pretty happy with how good I am at piano and composition. I guess it would be cool to be a talented fighter.

I'll have to say better athletic ability. I'm not afraid to say that when it comes to most sports I am an absolute and total klutz which is sort of baffling. A lot of that probably came from not learning how to properly play anything as a kid I suppose. Only sport I really ever partook in to a decent extent was soccer but I stopped playing that when I moved from Florida at a young age. **shrugs**

The two talents I've always clamored for are musical - I wish I could sing like Cam Pipes, and play guitar like John Frusciante.

Ahh but those are fevered dreams at this point...

It'd be pretty cool if I could develop a flexible, toned body and be great at contemporary and hip hop dance. Either that or have great MMA skills.

Aren't those kind of things that you get by hard work, not by being born with them?

I wish I could spit mad, possibly phat rhymes at will. It's a bit of a pain when my friends start freestylin' and I can't hold a candle. Oh well, I guess somebody has to beatbox... I also wish I could draw and breakdance.

Y'know what? I just wish I was the Mahdi. Yeah, causing world peace would be an awesome skill to have. :P

I always wanted to be an intense break-dancer, with all the moves. I can't find any classes that offer it in my town though, so I guess I have to keep on dreaming.

I always wanted to be really inventive and be able to create new things with ease.
It's not that I have a bad imagination, but I can't really figure out what needs to be invented in the first place.

I wish I could whistle. It sounds lame, but I really can't do it. :( I've tried and tried! I do what others tell me and fail miserably every time.

I wish I was as good an actor as Marlon Brando. I also wouldn't mind having one of those smiles that you can melt the ladies with.

That's certainly a part of it, but some people are naturally gifted and will be able to do some things better than others, no matter how hard they work.

Hmm, well singing, and just instruments like the violin and drums.
I wish I could compose music too.
Oh oh, I wish I had photographic memory.

I wish I could dance and draw well, though I suppose stuff like that can happen with tons of practice.

But what I'd really, really want is a way with witty words (yay, alliteration!). I'm not talking just a way with words, I need the witty, stinging stuff. I can't insult a person (or shut them up) for my life. I just wish I had the ability to come up with that 'come back' when I need it, not an hour later when the confrontation is over.

I'd like to be able to paint like the old masters. And sell my painting in the millions even while Im still alive.
Oh and I think Pablo Picasso's cubism is the greatest peice of shit in the artworld. I hate abstract art. Piet Mondrian's so called "paintings" make me puke. A 2 year old can paint better :P Im ranting.

Anyway, drawing is a big thing for me. I have a billion ideas and characters I've always wanted to put on to paper and express, but I lack any sort of art skill to do that. Along with drawing, the ability to play Piano (even though I already know how to play... I mean well by most standards) and Guitar. Also, to have better dancing skills. T_T

I'm not bad at dancing, I just want to have better dance skills. Mostly in ballroom and modern type dances (jazz, hip-hop... all that stuff.)

Singing would go great with my playing and improvising. I mean, most girls go crazy over musical guys, especially the singers. I even get girls just by playing the piano, it's ridiculous... but I want to hone that further and possibly pick up non-nerdy girls =D

DEVELOP PHOTOGRAPHIC EFFIN MEMORY! Jesus, I swear! I mean, I'm so jealous of those people, they don't even understand. Oh, the things you could do with something like that!

Same here! I so wish I could too. My dad and sis can, and despite following what they tell me to do, it hasn't worked :><:

Wow. I realize the purpose of this forum, but I'm shocked at how many music-related wishes were posted.

Me? If we're talking straight talent, I'd love to be able to communicate brilliantly about religion at a moment's notice. If the question is "ability," I'd like to be as compelling in the long term as I am when being brief. I'm great at parties (problem: I hate schmoozing) and can compose reasonably compelling sketches, tunes, short stories, and short subject films. I'm a great editor for others, too, in most capacities. Whenever I try to create something of my own that's full-length, however, it turns out to be mediocre. *sighs*

Seconded. I also wish I could do standing backflips and the like. I'm in awe of some of the free-runners...

And randomly, I'd like to be able to balance and spin objects on my finger better. I try and practice it every so often and usually end up looking like a numpty :(

For odd reasons, I could do that with almost any square pillow with my right hand going clockwise. I've managed to keep one up for a good two minutes or so out of boredom.

Haha, pillows? Awesome.

I've been able to balance boxes about 3'3'4' for a couple of minutes at work, but they were empty and therefore quite easy to keep up. I'd love to be able to balance a ladder or something on my fingers or chin :p

I really, really wish I could play the violin. It has always been my favorite instrument, but it looks like it would be extremely difficult to learn.

Oh, and I would love to have a good singing voice. I'm not tone deaf but my singing is nothing anyone would ever want to hear. I wouldn't want it to sound trained with a lot of vibrato, just...pleasant.

Oh, it's a long list for me...

Master every instrument (including voice), be a better composer, draw, be a superhuman fighter, photographic memory, be a complete genius...it goes on.

On a final note, perhaps I should add "be less greedy" to the above list. :p

I guess for me it would be to be a prodigy at math. I have never ever been good at math, and I always felt like my math skills were always poor. I wish I could have the talent to be a pro math person. I mean, I can't even add or multiply big numbers in my head. It is embarrasing I think.


Another talent I wish I had would be the ability to play Piano. I just love the sound it makes, and how fluid it can be when someone plays it. It's a very passionate instrument that I would love to learn and master.