What would you like to do, but can't?
 

I can't do small talk at parties. I can't remember people's names.

I can't play keyboard, although I have wanted to all my life.

I can't lie on my resume. I would crumple on interviews if I was asked about it.

I would like to go to cooking school but can't right now, maybe someday though. I would also like to be a rally car driver, that's just not gonna happen.

Sing, dance, and run without people laughing at me.

Remember people's names
Speak another language
Stick to my exercise plan
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Talk to my dad, just one more time.

Sing
Dance
have more self discipline

fly.
be invisible.
not asking for much.

I wish I could play piano.

I'll have to go with flying and being invisible, too.

I'd also like to write a killer-catchy song like Everyone's Had More Sex Than Me, Numa Numa or the Bananaphone song.

I can't remember people's names.
I can't forget a face.
I can't play ANY instrument - at all.
I can't dance (a blind, 1 legged turtle has more rhythm than I)
I can't sing :'(

oh, and paint like Case.

Ugggg - thats a really good one QotR

Be an African-American woman for one month. To experience all of the horror, pain, and suffering both groups have to deal with every day. To know what it means to be black it today’s world, and to have dealt with the daily assault of sexual harassment would help me be so much more empathetic. It would also make me a better person, countryman and world citizen. And the best part is when I hear someone complain that “you just don’t understand” what it’s like to have a period, to deal with hormones, or to be discriminated against…I can just simply say Bullshit!

It also would be nice to do this as Halle Berry or Thandie Newton because they rock!

Oh, being invisible, or being able to grow a certain appendage to any size or shape (as in Mr. Fantastic's powers) would be cool. But if we stay out of fantasy land, then I wished I could sing better, play the guitar, speak 5-6 other languages fluently, be able to work on the car without rapping my knuckles, and always have the right answer when my kids ask me a question...those would all be good.

I wish I could workout four times a week for a period longer than one lousy month.

I wish I could remember anything I wanted to anytime I wanted to.

I wish I could nail my mind to the subject at hand...I wish I didn't find it so hard to concentrate for any length of time on anything not connected to my own little fantasy world. I'd like to have more stamina for work.


On a lighter note: there are about 6 languages i'd love to be able to speak. Not just speak, but be fluent in. Also I wish I'd learned the violin instead of the flute when I was younger.

I'd like to be able to lose myself in dance when others are about. If I am dancing in I always become very consciouis of my dancing and that spoils it:P Actually, I'd lke to be a better dancer too lol.

I'd like to be able to teleport

specifically, I'd like to invent a cheap, handheld teleportation device.

I'd like to be unaware of whatever I can't do, and be happy with what I can. And I wish the list of what I could do would be longer, much longer.

heehee -I always wanted to learn the flute but was forced to play violin :lol:

I always wanted to be able the throw a pot on a wheel and figure skate. Am doing both right now -my own personal American Dream

I'd like to be able to really touch type. And I will one day.

I'm pretty much of a mindset that there's nothing you can't do if you try hard enough.

Oh, sweets, you just made me realise what it is I really would like...and really cannot have.

You used the word 'unaware'.

I'd like to be unaware of myself. Just to see what it's like. It's something I've never really experienced, except when asleep or concentrating hard on something (like a book). I don't know, maybe everyone's conscious of themselves, but other people seem to be able to forget themselves for a while and lose themselves in the moment. I don't think I recall ever, unless drunk, interacting with other people and not being aware of how I was presenting myself. I don;t mean competently aware, I may well be mistaken in what i think I am presenting. But I am never not presenting myself. Even when relaxed, even when perfectly at ease and at peace, if I am talking to someone, I am very conscious of my externalised self, my movements, my stance, the amount of eye contact I am making. All of it is quite conscious and sometimes pretty mechanical. Not dishonest, just ... deliberate. Like there's always a detached part of me observing, directing my part in the conversation.

It's no great mystery where that comes from *smiles* given my childhood experiences, and for the most part it serves me well these days. What started as crippling self-consciousness because of how I looked and all the other attendant stuff with eczema, that make you noticable (fidgeting, having to apply moisturiser every 20 mins or so, and therefore having greasy hands etc, scratching, suddenly noticing bloodstains on your school blouse. All makes you very aware of yourself, even if you can't actually stop the things that you're aware of) left me with the ability to walk into almost any situation and if necessary interact with large groups of people, without anybody ever thinking I am anything but relaxed.

I'm not saying I am unhappy with the way I am. I am now a fairly relaxed and carefree individual much of the time. But I am curious. There appears to be something other people do that I don't recall ever doing. Not ever, not even during the heights of passion.

I was just browsing over at Graph Jam and found THIS - so I am adding a post script to my former response. :D

@ Dana, are you looking for the word unselfconscious?

[soapbox] To those of you who wish to play a(nother) musical instrument or learn a(nother) language: What's stopping you? If it's the time money thing, then I hope you manage to find the missing resource soon. If it's "oh, I wish I'd learnt as a kid but it's too late now" then allow me to say to you, humbly ... "BOLLOCKS! GET ON AND DO IT! IT'S NEVER TOO LATE".
I was gonna say this yesterday, but am even more inspired to do so today having listened in on my Best Beloved teaching his newest student the cornet today - a guy who started only a few months ago and had never played any musical instrument or read music before. I've not heard him for a couple of months and he's made such evident progress in that time, a fuller, more steady tone, good grasp of basic note lengths, better stamina, one of the tunes he played he played at sight faultlessly ... really impressive progress. He must be 55 years-old if he's a day. He's having a ball! It's so great to hear him.
I could say the same about languages as I've taught language classes with older persons in ...
Yes you learn more slowly as an adult, but you also have the wisdom to apply yourself more thoroughly and see the results. Get on and DO IT! [/soapbox]

WTF? Next you'll be saying we can actually read books.

Next thing you know they'll be walking naked down main street. It's communism. :3_eyes:

Promise? :drool:

See, there they go. Quick, look out your window.

Nothing but a bunch of scruffy fishermen.:(

Oh sorry. Damn casting screwed up again!

I would like to be less indifferent about the amazing assortment of musical instruments that I know how to play but am badly out of practice with.

answer this question.

What would you like to do, but can't?
 

Possess identical strength and dexterity in the limbs on both sides of my body, and
the necessary mental overhead to control them efficiently at this new, higher capacity.

@bruce:

Not really. The most accurate word literally, but 'selfconscious' and 'unselfconscious' carry connotations around confidence. I was getting at something slightly different. Difficult to put into words.

I wish I had a photographic memory and could could recall, at will, everything I've ever read or learned.

I also like the whole teleportation idea. :D

Ah, got it. Words, like old friends and lovers, accumulate baggage. ;)

Would like to ride the bike today, but:

1) It is snowing
2) It isn't licensed
3) No brake light
4) I have a meeting to attend

Unless your meeting is your own funeral, in which case all the reasons would be positive indicators, you have made a prudent decision.

Remember there are only two kinds of bikers:

Old ones and bold ones, and they are mutally exclusive.

I would like to love myself.
I'd settle for liking myself.
I'd be happy with thinking I'm pretty damn cool.

I'm hoping that this is a case of, "I can't... yet"

I'm doing a lot of things I thought I couldn't do at the moment.
But without believing in myself there will always be a glass ceiling.

Dear SG
here's a sprinkling of fairy dust that allows you to see yourself as others do ...
We at teh Cellar love you, like you and think you're pretty damn cool.
Honest.
If only you could see you ...
:luv:

I can't run a mile without feeling like my lungs are about to explode. I'm working on fixing that one though.

I can't play guitar although I've tried. I really just can't get the whole fret thing happening. I console myself with being able to play piano and sing and in knowing that I've been able to play just about every other instrument I've tried.

I actually find the whole concept of 'I can't' a bit irritating actually. I think in most cases (as limey said) the only thing stopping us is ourselves and our priorities. I think most of us would say 'I can' to the things that're most important to us.

WTF? Why don't you like you, everybody else does? :confused:

I wish I could surf really well. Get out in some 10 or 12 foot pumpers and ride some barrels, cruise the green room. That looks so bloody awesome.

Many obstacles are in my path. Lack of physical strength (for paddling out). Very susceptible to cold especially from being in water (due to being so thin). Lack of good surf nearby. Lack of board, suit etc.

I could do it if I really wanted to, but I don't want to badly enough to do all the work I would have to do to get there from here. And that, I think, applies to very many idle fancies I have. I'd like to be a virtuoso musician, a polyglot, a yogi, a third-dan aikidoka, and rich as all hell. In reality, I prefer to spend my free time hanging with my friends or going hiking.

@ SG: you darling girl. Like Limey said, "IF ONLY you could see yourself the way WE see you!"

You are fascinatingly cool, ungodly witty, gorgeous as only the Girlfriend of God can be and a creative genius. And that's only the beginning.

LOVE U!