Gifts you were born with

Since it's the season to give and receive gifts I wondered about the gifts we are born with. I've always been amazed and envious of people who were born with a natural ability to play music or sing well. One of my closest friends has an incredible ability with his math skills, far beyond the average. The ability to draw, paint or sculpt is a gift that communicates and pleases others. Equally I know people who seem capable of learning languages as if it were no challenge at all. Wow! What gifts! About as close as I come to a born gift is the ability to piss off people who are big and bad enough to kick my ass. Pretty handy item there.

So lets hear it. What can you do with ease...draw, yodel, determine the galaxy's weight down to the kilogram? Can you find the right words to soothe a savage temper. Beyond the ordinary ability most people have to produce certain skills, do you have remarkable talent or ability?

If I get serious briefly I believe I have insight and understanding that helps other people learn to resolve their problems. It was something that was always there. As I moved into my teens I began to recognize this skill and further develop. it Another skill I have is the use humor to ease difficult situations. I can't claim greatness, just above the average skills that seem to have been built in.

So how about folks, what have you got going for yourself. It's Christmas time, Hanukkah, Solstice or whatever.... be generous to yourself. Tell us what fate or fortune has gifted you with.

 

Being able to tell someones heritage by looking at them

 

I've always been able to tell if the people I meet are someone that will be a long time friend/relationship possibility or just a flash in the pan. Usually within a few times of hanging out with them.

 

I'm blessed with the ability to take a pile of wood and make a pretty damned nice piece of furniture.

 

I have always been very strong in remaining calm during very stressful situations when around others or by myself. I keep my emotions in the bag tell its the right time to let them go. I didnt realize this tell my mid 20's after looking back and coming to understandiing with my age and who i am as a person. Though keeping those emotions in the bag has come back to hurt me a few times. It feels like a catch 22, but i dont feel damned in anyway. I do believe it is a gift in a way and i also firmly believe now that i will use this gift in the future that will change a huge part of my life....

 

I have always been an optimist. I am not sure if that is nature or nurture.

I do not see the dark first, instead I see opportunity. I see good, I see hope, I see the best in not only others but in what I can be.

I say nature or nurture as my mom is also an optimist. She always looks for the positive and finds a way to turn any negative into a positive or a lesson. Maybe I have simply been blessed with a "nurture" situation.

Maybe I was blessed to be raised by someone who saw that and also instilled patience in having it come to full circle.

On a fun note, I can sing.

 

On the other end of the spectrum I can make a guitar sound like somthing you would never listen too.

 

Seem some have the Gift of prophecy though are also Cursed with that no one believes them – just my experience then?

 

I have natural poise and balance, and have always been good at activities which rely upon these things (climbing, dancing, riding, skating ... )

 

Gifts I was born with that I still retain or does it include those that I can't still do?

 

Abundant life.

 

giant penis.

 

Any and all would count

 

Trippy rainbow eyes, poetry, art, music, intuitive, instinctive, understand animals, intelligence not enslaved by the man, astral projections, consciousness, love, insight...etc.

 

spidey sense

 

i was born a babe magnet

 

I'm really good at doing impressions.

 

Im good at fixing things

Im also really good at breaking them so its kind of cancels each other out

I can grow a beard so nice it even turns myself on

 

I'm good at writing shit down. Although you would never guess it from that sentence

I'm also a good person to have around during bad times, especially things like break ups. I'm not very good at listening to people spill out their emotions, stuff like that makes me feel icky, but I am good at getting people to have fun and take their minds off the bad things going on in life.

 

I'm extremely talented in listening music.