What talents do you wish your parents put you in growing up? Mine would have been dance, if I knew how to dance

[Journeytoletgo]

Splits, belly dance, and all those feel good hormones rushing threw me as I attract attention to myself. Would have been amazing

Man I'm jealous of people that find an interest and stick to it.

 

[LivideLamb]

I stopped piano way too early because I hated how the professor would teach me. She would yell all the time, be mean, etc. I wish they had changed the establishment and I would have been well versed in it.
Oh also, I wish they would have taught me the one and only talent: emotional intelligence

 

[lili]

I wish I was good at music or singing. For me it's so beautiful to understand music or being able to sing. Wish I had those abilities.

 

[CommitSudoku]

I wish I had been taught how to communicate mostly. My mother especially is very extroverted and talks to more people than I can fathom even knowing, but I feel like I just slipped under the radar and wasn't taught what could have helped.

Aside from that I loved horses and wanted to ride, but wasn't allowed and didn't push it since my parents didn't like spending money. I was also interested in gaming when consoles were still much newer and wasn't allowed to pursue that. I think a lot of my life I was shot down or not allowed to do much and just learned not to have interests or express them. Now I don't really have the desire to learn/do much, even if it's perhaps possible to pursue some things.

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

I wish I had been encouraged into team sports where I could learn discipline, teamwork, follow-through, competition, self-confidence, and an appreciation for my own body and what it can do. Plus the advantage Of having a coach helping you realize your potential instead of wallowing in self defeat and self pity.
As it was, I was strangely led to believe that sports were for dumb jocks and ultimately pointless. In my next life… if I'm not reborn a cockroach.

 

[Catloaf]

Drawing. At 6yo I visited a class one time but didn't go to the next ones cause they began too early and I liked to sleep. I wish my parents had been more strict and would have dragged me out of bed that morning.

 

[its-about-time]

I was put in piano lessons at a young age. I despised them but wasn't allowed to quit for several years. I'm grateful for that though. Making music has become a huge part of my life and a wonderful outlet for me, when I'm feeling creative. I have close to 200 of my own songs on SoundCloud. I don't think I would've been able to grasp composition and playing many different instruments so well if I hadn't learned about music at a young age and been encouraged to stay in orchestra through my teenage years.

I know you asked about what we're lacking in life for but I'm choosing to share gratitude on this one :)

 

[sealbabies]

I wish there was a way to truly learn how to creatively write because I can draw, but never have a cohesive narrative.
Tried countless times and I know I failed because it was like pulling teeth.
Maybe living would be more interesting if I had the organized imagination to create other realities other than my own. But yeah.

 

[cyanlove]

My parents let me quit ballet in third grade. It wound up biting me in the ass in my late teens because I wanted to go into musical theater.

 

[FuneralCry]

I am not talented at anything. When I was younger, I wished that I was able to draw, but I have always been terrible at that. There is nothing here for me in this world and I have never wanted to live. I am unable to get enjoyment out of anything.

 

[nothinginterest]

I wish my parent put me in gymnastic or ballet class. I am so jealous those who very flexible. I can only do simple front split from self learning but I wish can do many more cool flexibility poses. My body still sore everywhere from me trying to do fish flop 2 days ago.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

I wish my parent put me in gymnastic or ballet class. I am so jealous those who very flexible. I can only do simple front split from self learning but I wish can do many more cool flexibility poses. My body still sore everywhere from me trying to do fish flop 2 days ago.

I'm jealous too, and it builds confidence in childhood and self esteem

 

[kukukoko]

General work ethic (my parents were NEETs after arriving in Europe and getting social benefits), value of education and general drive for work or at least being an example that striving for something is worthwhile

 

[Cosmic dust]

I wish I had been encouraged into team sports where I could learn discipline, teamwork, follow-through, competition, self-confidence, and an appreciation for my own body and what it can do. Plus the advantage Of having a coach helping you realize your potential instead of wallowing in self defeat and self pity.
As it was, I was strangely led to believe that sports were for dumb jocks and ultimately pointless. In my next life… if I'm not reborn a cockroach.

Same here, team sports are also a great way to interact with people, learn to pursue self improvement and have a physically healthy life.

 

[_Seeking]

I wasn't put in anything when I was younger, but I started dance at 18 once I got away from home and got okay at it. I did it at my university, I got okay at ballet, modern and jazz and even did some performances at the college level. Nothing exceptional, pretty middle of the road, but it made me feel better about myself because I was horribly bullied in middle/high school gym class for being so physically weak and timid. I don't know if you are near a university, but even community colleges offer classes at the beginner level that aren't too expensive.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

I also wish I learned karate to kick those bullies asses! And carried pepper spray to school and a knife

I blame my parents for this. They should have been honest and said I looked like shit and I had to defend myself. My older cousin she really was honest and told me I was lazy lol because I was ugly lol, she told me to fight back I love her for being a mentor for me while my parents were neglectful and just not informed or encouraging it's like they wanted me to be slaughtered. If I knew everything now I would fucking slice those bullies and carry a knife around so any man that wanted to prey on me would have got SLICED for having damaged skin BRING it mother fucker lol

 

[ShepherdOfMyself]

I don't want to put any of this on my parents; they were always supportive of what I wanted to do. My lack of skills and drive is my own fault.
That said, I wish I had greater drawing skills- I used to love drawing in class, but I never made the jump to learning the proper applications of figures, poses, etc. It would be awesome to be able to draw my own fanart. As a bonus, I'd be able to do some online commission work.
I also wish I had the foresight to go into a more in-demand, technical field like engineering, rather than a substandard business degree. Alas.