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What a GREAT question! Stolen from the Friday Five (my answers are here), and modified just a little:
What are some things you've always wanted to learn but haven't yet?
Always wanted to learn. So I can't count voluntarily dilating my irises, a thing I just thought up a few minutes ago but now really really wish I could do.
How to play: guitar, harp, dulcimer, hammer dulcimer.
How to speak, read, and write: Arabic, Swedish and/or Norwegian, German (improve), Russian (relearn), Japanese, Hindi, Basque, Latin.
Understanding: myself and others. Why I do what I do. Why I fall for the people I fall for. Why I can at times be so immobilized by anxiety or stress. Why the Brandenburg concertos or Yosemite have the effect on me that they do. Why people park across two parking spaces, or deliberately get in the wrong lane, or push away the very people who care most. Why why why!
Skills: Chess (improve), the craft of writing, the ability to make a room look nice, the ability to be at home in widely varied social situations, physical self-defense, physical grace. There are lots more in this category that don't really count as "I've always wanted to learn". Flying stuff, for example.
Weird body stuff: How to make my eyes diverge. I have been trying this since I was in grade school and I can't do it yet.
Supernatural stuff: If this sort of thing could be learned, I'd enroll in classes for: out-of-body experience, levitation, telekinesis, clairvoyance, and healing by the laying on of hands.
The scary part is I'm sure this list isn't exhaustive. ExhaustING maybe... :-)
What are some things you've always wanted to learn but haven't yet?
Always wanted to learn. So I can't count voluntarily dilating my irises, a thing I just thought up a few minutes ago but now really really wish I could do.
How to play: guitar, harp, dulcimer, hammer dulcimer.
How to speak, read, and write: Arabic, Swedish and/or Norwegian, German (improve), Russian (relearn), Japanese, Hindi, Basque, Latin.
Understanding: myself and others. Why I do what I do. Why I fall for the people I fall for. Why I can at times be so immobilized by anxiety or stress. Why the Brandenburg concertos or Yosemite have the effect on me that they do. Why people park across two parking spaces, or deliberately get in the wrong lane, or push away the very people who care most. Why why why!
Skills: Chess (improve), the craft of writing, the ability to make a room look nice, the ability to be at home in widely varied social situations, physical self-defense, physical grace. There are lots more in this category that don't really count as "I've always wanted to learn". Flying stuff, for example.
Weird body stuff: How to make my eyes diverge. I have been trying this since I was in grade school and I can't do it yet.
Supernatural stuff: If this sort of thing could be learned, I'd enroll in classes for: out-of-body experience, levitation, telekinesis, clairvoyance, and healing by the laying on of hands.
The scary part is I'm sure this list isn't exhaustive. ExhaustING maybe... :-)
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