Everyone is special.

[wolven7]

Thoughts, here... Everyone has an ability, or a thing at which they excell. I know how to pry insight in just such a way as to make my description do what it needs to do. Whatever that means. What I'm saying is, there's a thing that you can do that no one else can do as well.

Do you want to talk about it?

Comments

[salrushdy.livejournal.com]

why not to be excellent in all thing you do,
should we look for some "special thing",
when chances to success are 1/N(opportunities), where N->infinity.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

If you excell at everything, without focusing on any one, then it all beomes your base level, and what becomes the point? Only thorough constant appreciation of each aspect do we use our abilities in the way they deserve.

We can be excellent at everything. But we have to start somewhere.

[salrushdy.livejournal.com]

don't like the word excel at all,
there is smthing to do with external reference,
when the only true is you:
you have a good time - you don't have a good time

"there's a thing that you can do that no one else can do as well"
sounds pretty speculative, but why not?
my point is that answer doesn't matter so much
I start play drums and goddamn enjoy it, whether I become Rick
Gratton? Should I care...

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

I have the ability to be psychic about completely innane and particularly unimportant events. And mostly with close friends only.

A few examples:
An inexplicably massive desire to watch Boondock Saints out of nowhere, the same day my good friend in Ohio watched it. (I realized that night when she randomly chose to use the name MacManus in something and I was like, "That's the brothers' last name in Boondock Saints, isn't it? I had the craziest urge to watch it today." And she responded with, "Yes! And I totally DID watch it today!")

Bringing up fried chicken (and it's juiciness) in a big discussion of food early in a day before a friend chose to make juicy fried chicken an important last meal for a character who died.

The same friend in the past two accounts and I write this story, and I knew that she was going to bring in a new character, but didn't know what his name would be. That day I thought about it and only came up with one name: Aaron. Once I thought of it, I guessed it would be that and stopped thinking about it. The character's name turned out to be Aaron.

With a different friend, I had a dream early in the morning about her, and she later made a comical lj post with the exact same subject (which isn't exactly a subject we talk about hardly ever). In my dream, I made reference to a line in a movie, when I told her about the dream and the wackiness, she made the exact same reference.

After not talking to my ex for nearly a year, I suddenly started thinking about her before going to bed one night and resolved to ask her best friend (Katie) the next morning (who I was going to be talking to -- and often talk to) if she ever asked about me. The next morning, Katie didn't sign online, because she got her best friend (my ex) to sign on and finally speak to me. Katie and I hadn't spoken of my ex in a very long time.


If this is a super power, I think I'd prefer it to be about more important things than fried chicken and silly lj posts. I admit that the Boondock Saints thing and choosing the name Aaron were kinda cool. And the thing about my ex was kind of in a world of its own, according to her and I. But either way, it's all very comical to me and seems more than just coincidence sometimes.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Once is unique, twice is coincidence. Three times or more? Conspiracy, providence, synchronicity?

A book, by Jung, which you should read. :)

According to Bond,

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

three times is enemy action.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Meh. I'm sure that there's something, here. I don't know what it is.

And it may not be excelling. It may simply be the unique way in which you apply it.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I count even that uniqueness as a kind of excellence. :)

[ellenore.livejournal.com]

I call bullshit on that. I can't think of anything I can do that at least 100 people in the world ought to be able to do better.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

You can't think of one thing you do in a unique and independent way? Nothing at all?

[ellenore.livejournal.com]

I'm a doubleplusgood whiner.

I think my little sis is better, though.

since you asked, i challenged myself to actually give it some thought

[raoin.livejournal.com]

normally i have a hard time coming up with something i think i do well... i typically self-deprecate to the point that i dont think i do anything well... then i get depressed about how i cant do anything.

but i would have to say, that given a chance, i think i could manage anyone else's life better than my own... wait, that's put badly...

i'm an organizer, i'm good at making plans and putting the best one into action given the information at hand. but my own life frequently feels cluttered and out of control, largely because i lack the detachment to my life details that i retain when examining other people's situations. however i know for certain that in instances where i am put in charge of some one else's things, that i do a better job at taking care of them and making sure every little detail goes right. i do this better than they could, and i do it better for them than for myself. i've often considered being a personal assistant, but i dont think i'd ever have any time for myself and i have no idea how to break into that business.

i can pack and move like no one's business.
i would consider myself to be a master planner.
i know how to move through/with bureaucracy and get what i want.

Re: since you asked, i challenged myself to actually give it some thought

[wolven.livejournal.com]

It's a good skill to have, amd i'm sure you could e-mail Neil's Fabulous Assistant, Lorraine, and ask how one gets started in that field. Or e-mail Neil, asking him to direct it to her, if you can't find hers. I used to have it, but I don't think I do, anymore.

[auriam.livejournal.com]

I can see the opposite side to any situation. Often I use this against myself, to see the unhappiness and imperfection in any otherwise enjoyable experience or achievement.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

But you recognise that, so you can turn it around, as you need to.

[elioraceit.livejournal.com]

i think i'm pretty good at multi-tasking.

sometimes it makes me anxious to the point of tears, but i hang in there pretty well and get the job done.

:D