There are many things I am completely terrible at. An important part of the process is learning, accepting and eventually, celebrating the things that you are terrible at. Some things I am actually proud that I am pretty bad at. I think if life went differently, and I was good at them, I would be happy just the same, but being bad at them just worked out.
There are some things that I am bad at, that I regret being bad at. I wish I learned more math and science in school. I wish I would have learned some foreign languages while my brain was still supple. I wish I could shoot 3-pointers or ice-skate backwards. I'd rather talk about the things I am bad at, that I am happy I am bad.
For one, I have always had horrible hand-writing. Now I don't care, because this isn't hand written. I guess I lucked out on technology. If I had to write legibly to be a writer, I suppose I would have learned, but luckily I never had to. When people have bad hand writing, they are said to write like "boys," because women typically have better hand-writing. I always thought women had better penmanship because they write slower, because they struggle, oh how they struggle to find anything interesting to say.
Recently, I've noticed that I am a terrible photographer, and how alright I am with that. Photography isn't a skill as much as it's a technology. Photographers are to the art world as rock bassists are to the music world, or chiropractors are to medicine. They barely qualify, and must secretly wish they could do something more interesting, wish they could paint, play guitar or perform surgery.
However, rock bands require the humble duty of bass to provide the low end to the bands sound, just as we need photographers in our lives, to take record of the regrettable. I just don't feel like people who are photographers should flaunt it, they should be humble, like the bassist, and just say "I'm with the band." Let's face it, people who fancy themselves photographers are basically a cheesy Hawaiian shirt, away from being Japanesse tourists.
People who have become professional photographers are lucky they haven't yet been replaced by robots. Speaking of which, why don't people, who ask strangers to take their pictures just use self-timer. One of these days I'd like to steal a camera during this imposing request. Tourists will stop me on the street and entrust me with capturing their precious poses, before they are lost forever to the time vacuum. I never feel that inspired to do more than point, click and run away before I can be asked to do it again.
There are some things that I am bad at, that I regret being bad at. I wish I learned more math and science in school. I wish I would have learned some foreign languages while my brain was still supple. I wish I could shoot 3-pointers or ice-skate backwards. I'd rather talk about the things I am bad at, that I am happy I am bad.
For one, I have always had horrible hand-writing. Now I don't care, because this isn't hand written. I guess I lucked out on technology. If I had to write legibly to be a writer, I suppose I would have learned, but luckily I never had to. When people have bad hand writing, they are said to write like "boys," because women typically have better hand-writing. I always thought women had better penmanship because they write slower, because they struggle, oh how they struggle to find anything interesting to say.
Recently, I've noticed that I am a terrible photographer, and how alright I am with that. Photography isn't a skill as much as it's a technology. Photographers are to the art world as rock bassists are to the music world, or chiropractors are to medicine. They barely qualify, and must secretly wish they could do something more interesting, wish they could paint, play guitar or perform surgery.
However, rock bands require the humble duty of bass to provide the low end to the bands sound, just as we need photographers in our lives, to take record of the regrettable. I just don't feel like people who are photographers should flaunt it, they should be humble, like the bassist, and just say "I'm with the band." Let's face it, people who fancy themselves photographers are basically a cheesy Hawaiian shirt, away from being Japanesse tourists.
People who have become professional photographers are lucky they haven't yet been replaced by robots. Speaking of which, why don't people, who ask strangers to take their pictures just use self-timer. One of these days I'd like to steal a camera during this imposing request. Tourists will stop me on the street and entrust me with capturing their precious poses, before they are lost forever to the time vacuum. I never feel that inspired to do more than point, click and run away before I can be asked to do it again.
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