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Doesn't mean you aren't useful, but perhaps more specialized.

Back scratcher?

Now that might be harsh... perhaps a lid/tab lifter?

Why is this in L&D? Are you saying that in the dating scene, "uniqueness" on its own is not a winning quality? I'm not sure anyone would dispute that (though I'm sure there are some people who have a "uniqueness" fetish, so someone unique is useful to such people, but that would be rare).

I could use a back-scratcher right about now.

Another region of my body other than my back needs scratching, at the moment, but no way am I using that thing!

Looks like an efficient torture tool

You mean...Ass-scratcher.

Yup, pretty much.

No, think again.

No I figured all one had to do to be useful was be unique because those two always correlate of course. Unique automatically causes you to have a useful talent...you didn't know that?


Of course being unique would not negate ones useful qualities, even if some jerks treat them like it ought to.

so true

No, it actually doesn't. There are plenty of people out there, unique and not unique who have absolutely no useful talent at all. That doesn't mean they can't do anything, it just means that there is nothing special about them in a good way. They have the same talent everybody else has.

Also, for some unique people their only useful talent is making their parents or other people who are around them a lot, happy. That is sad but true. Take Terri Shaivo for instance. After she had the brain injury her only useful talent was making her parents happy when they came to see her. I'm not saying that isn't contributing something to someone, because she was. I'm saying that she wasn't useful in the general sense.

Before somebody gets all offended by my statement (and trust me, some people will get offended if I say the sky is blue because that's somehow or other putting down either the blind or the colorblind in their minds) I'm not saying that people who aren't useful in the general sense are worthless. Far from it. Babies are not useful at all in that sense but are in no way worthless. Even if you didn't take into consideration that in all probability they will grow up into someone who is useful to society, they are still not useful at the moment but not worthless. Kids, up to a certain age, are also not useful in a general sense and not worthless either.

However, not everybody has a useful talent. Also, not every talent is useful.

Again, that isn't to say they are worthless. Just not useful.

A baby is useful in a "passive" way. People enjoy babies because they are "new," and they are full of innocence and give off the aura of "new life."

Adults can be useful in a "vicarious" sense, too. I know people who do nothing actively to inspire me--but I'm inspired, nevertheless, by their example.

I'm useless in general terms. I don't have any talent. I've tried things. unless you count making bowls from wood, not very useful in a time and age where people prefer plastics.

when I'm with someone though I try to make them smile and laugh. I try to cheer them up. I strive to make others happy. I honestly use to think that was good thing and would make some special woman happy. that was many years ago though I had got too confident and probably arrogant in my belief of that.