Do you have wasted talents?

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I like to think I've made good use of every talent I have. If there's a talent of mine that's gone to waste, I haven't discovered it yet.

I appear to have a talent for physical affection.
Since I also find romantic and monogamous relationships repulsive it winds up being rather useless and frustrating. Given that the only context the vast majority of people want physical affection is within an amantonormative relationship

I've been told I'm good with kids but I have no desire to have kids. I may be a foster parent in the future but my bad childhood may also disqualify me even though I don't have any psychological issues that would put kids in danger.

Though I was a professional trombonist beginning my freshman year of high school, I slowly left the instrument as I played keyboards professionally instead. After not having played the trombone for eight years, I had decided to play trombone in a local orchestra that my son had recently joined. After practicing up for a few weeks a few minutes a day, I didn't feel quite up to par. But upon making it through an orchestra practice for a two hour rehearsal, I felt pretty good about myself. A couple days later I noticed a blind spot in my left eye's vision. I went to my eye doctor who did a retinal scan and saw no irregularities. However, he thinks I have a small tear or hole in my left retina. Did playing trombone cause this as I was not used to it (playing wind instruments does put nearly 10% extra pressure within the eye)? I don't know. But I do know from what I have read that it is not a good idea to play a wind instrument if one has a retinal tear. It isn't certain if I have a tear or not, but I do have a small blind spot in my left eye.

I won't specify which, but two things could only happen if I discover my own talents:
Either it's too expensive for me to practice, or do practice but I prefer to keep it a secret.

It's mostly the former that prevents me to.
And the latter? I don't want high expectations.

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i always wanted to write and be a published author, but i always have a hard time getting traffic on my blog that i have.

Yes, I'm wasting most of my talents, because I have not met people to work with to promote the progress I have made. It does not help that my favourite tool now has entertainment just one click away whenever I feel stuck.

No, I feel like I don't have any talent at all.

Back in high school, we were required to write a traditional Japanese haiku in one of our English classes. It was something that I dreaded doing, but I channeled my childhood rage of being bullied for the motivation to write it. I wrote one that not only got me a good grade for the class, but went on and won a regional poetry contest that the teacher secretly entered me in. I had no idea about that last part until it was mentioned at the awards ceremony at the end of the school year. The teacher used my poem for the next twenty years in his class as an example of what someone can do if they put their mind to it. English was by far the my worst school subject while growing up.

I think we have room for a haiku here. . .

I did some haiku poems about my cats on a Siamese cat site. The people liked them.

If I use my talents and enjoy them, then they're not wasted. If they make me happy that's the most important thing of all.

IstominFan, me too!! ! I memorized like everything about Auschwitz, the FLDS church (right down to who was wearing what) and other stuff involving personal disasters.

I also have a talent for activism but that won't be wasted for much longer, I'm going to be an activist even if the process kills me!