Wish I had more...
Day 01 - Your favorite song
Day 02 - Your favorite movie
Day 03 - Your favorite television program
Day 04 - Your favorite book
Day 05 - Your favorite quote
Day 06 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 - A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - A fan-fic
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 - A talent of yours
I can do a lot of things in a okay kind of way. But I don’t think I have any really super talents. I can draw, (sort of) in a possumish way, and I can walk great distances if the land is flattish, I can carry heavy things, but I’m probably hurting myself, I can swim well but not fast. I can do all sorts of backbends in yoga but hips refuse to open. Talent is subjective at the very least.
I have a pretty good handle on watercolors though. And I think that’s talent, because I was never really taught how to use them.
But I think my greatest talent would be ignoring the obvious to take a more challenging route. More often than not, I’m looking for the challenge, to test myself, to prove myself to me. Whether it’s making more complicated wedding invitations than one person should make, or carrying a huge heavy printer for a mile and quarter using a medium size duffle bag and a yoga strap, I set weird unreasonable goals for myself and try to achieve them. A reasonable amount of times I’m even successful. I lot of it is a survival strategy. But is that a talent?
You know what my talent is?
Improv. I was good at improv. Being on stage made me happy. And flying without a net, without knowing what was about to happen, relying on your skills and your ability to handle quick and random changes, to explore a scene without clear structure made me happy. Feeding off of an audiences laughter, adding private jokes, and the strange physical comedy of all… was something I was good at. Improv on stage is like life, it’s a random series of things that happen but now you have to freedom to react in the way you want to, instead of how you should. And I was good at thinking on my feet and connecting the dots.
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - This month, in great detail
Day 28 - This year, in great detail