My co-worker showed me a video of his son improvising on an acoustic guitar. He was pretty good for having only taken lessons for three months. My co-worker said the teacher told him DJ had real talent. I replied, "That's great. I always found it hard to improvise when I was playing. Dan'l is better at improvising on the piano, not so much the cello and unlikely on the tuba. But now that he's in the choir, who knows."
I should try to be more encouraging of this kid who is only one year younger than Dan'l. But I am a little jealous that kid has found his thing. He's DJ, the one who plays guitar. Dan'l is the big kid.
It probably wouldn't bother me as much except R recently asked me out of the blue, "What exactly is Dan'l good at?" I started a list of things he can do, but then R asked, "What's his thing?" Then I thought (because ultimately, it's all about me), what's my thing?
R's thing is editing. My dad's is carpentry and general handyman stuff. My mom's thing is nursing/care giver. My sister's is that she's persistent. My brother is the soldier and my other brother's is being the nice husband of a psycho wife.
Me? There are some things I can do, but nothing that I'm really good at except for one thing: I'm great at identifying voices. I can hear a commercial on TV and tell you that it's John Boy, Keifer or the woman from "Jack & Bobby" doing the voice-over. But these three people have very distinct voices, so maybe everyone can tell the difference. Anyway, these are the first three that came to my mind, but there are others I can ID so I'm sticking to it.
This is something not everybody knows about me, though. For now I guess I can be the one who makes good pumpkin cheesecake.
What's your thing?
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I have never felt I had a thing. In fact I remember in 2nd grade we had to come up with a list of our talents for a religion class assignment and I cried because I couldn't think of anything.
I like to read. Is that my thing?
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