aspirations
I’ve devoted no small part of my life to trying to gain useless skills. I spent hours in front of a mirror in my youth trying to raise one eyebrow at a time, which I suppose is not as useless as it gets because sometimes there is no better response to a piece of news than an eyebrow raise, don’t you agree? However being able to twitch my nostrils rapidly like a rabbit is decidedly less applicable in daily life. Eventually I also learned to see the 3D shapes in the magic eyebooks, write my name so that it is the same upside down and right side up (luckily for me I have an “I” in the exact middle), and French braid my hair behind my head. But I still haven’t acquired all the skills that I desire.
Useless skills that I still really want and am convinced I one day will learn:
- blowing bubble gum bubbles the size of baseballs
- whistling loudly with my fingers
- skipping rocks
- skating backwards
- cartwheeling (it looks so fun!)
- break dancing
- double dutch jump-roping
I’ve been working really hard on No. 1 lately and it has given me a sore jaw.
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