sabine | 10 Days of Positivity

It is sadly uncommon that my customer requests an early morning meeting and then cancels it a few minutes before the scheduled start time. So I rush to get to my desk on time only to find out that I didn't need to rush at all. Balls.

Right. Good mood will be brought down in a hail of missile fire and I'll start an art project with its entrails.

Day Eight - Talent pipes

I'll never earn talent pipes like in Name of the Wind. I don't have enough musical talent. Well, actually, to be honest, if I put in the time and energy and got good teachers, I probably could be a very good minstrel. But I didn't put in the time when I was younger and my parents didn't push me into it or make the making of music a family thing.

One of the things I've learned about my personality and brain is that I can pick up pretty much anything and get good at it. Some things are harder to learn - pottery, dance, racquetball - but if I put in the hours of repetitions, I can gain competency in any area. Purely mental tasks are easier for me to get - languages, science, math, stories. Minor hand-eye coordination tasks are harder and full body coordination tasks are the hardest. It doesn't help that for the longest time I've believed that I'm completely hopeless at tasks that involve my limbs working together. Something about extreme growth spurts, preferring reading over running, and being really, really bad at sports made me believe it was all impossible.

Nothing's impossible.

I may not have time to master every skill, but if I put in the energy, I'll get something out of it. I'll improve and I'll be able to measure the improvement.

Case in point - I finally won the annual Iron Bulwer-Lytton Challenge. My skills at writing extremely dreadful prose are getting better and better. Soon I shall be unstoppable. Bow before me! Tremble and despair! Mwahahahahaha!

Er, I mean, I've gotten good enough at sewing to make a totally crazy bodice from scratch, modify a pattern to get Emi her Spider-man glitter dress, and make some pretty nifty steampunk outfits. At one point I was pretty good at painting minis. I can crochet just about anything, given directions.

I have skill points that I've distributed! This is a reason to be happy!