wish I could do that

I wish I could be the sort who would rush to the aid of someone who has say collapsed in the street. I can't, I would look the other way fear sort of overtakes me.

I wish I could get my head under water when swimming without going into complete panic mode.
I wish I could concentrate on something and follow through to the bitter end without giving up half way....
I wish I could be more decisive
I wish I could paint what is in my head
I wish I could play the piano without having to read music

Hope you're now around if I keel over then

Not around...

I wish I could understand people. I have colleagues less than half my age who know how people are going to react to other people and events and have made really good choices when taking on new girls. I wouldn't know where to start if I had to conduct a job interview.

I am so lucky, I can do everything perfectly, here is the list in order of expertise.

Lying
Brain surgery
Astro physics
Olympic Athelete
etc etc.

Seriously, I do wish I could sing.

Wobbly,

I wish I could..... play piano, paint/draw, speak a foreign language fluently, sing.

And I wish I could get down on the floor to play with the grandchildren (and get up again )

I wish I could prevaricate less, and time manage better
I have so many fun hobbies that I would love to be better at - but getting there (anywhere) takes around 300 hours of practice, at least for those of us without innate skill; and I never have the time!

Karate
Playing the bodhran
Playing the ocarina
Writing
Jewellery making (now THAT's the worst, so many subdivisions! I always want to try something new before I'm good at whatever I picked up last!)

I keep telling myself I shall practice everything when I retire

Love to travel,so would love to be able to communicate with people in their country, have tried- French, Spanish and Italian, just can't do it.
Is there a reason to explain this?

WE have tried to learn Italian, been on courses, internet etc, goes in one ear and out the other. Never seem to remember other than the most basic words.

I'd like to sing too. I could once when I was younger but after several bouts of laryngitis, something affected my singing voice and left it in a delicate condition. Ageing has affected it too. I'd also love to play a harpsichord, speak French and Italian - particularly Italian - and understand Latin. More than anything I wish I was creative and could amke things with my hands.

Wish I was better at housework and house maintenance. I really do admire dedicated housekeeping, I'd love to live in immaculate surroundings.

Grannybing life is too short to worry about house work etc, get out there and do something daring, skydiving perhaps?

I sing with our ukulele group, but only because the others are so loud that I cannot be heard. Not sure why I can't sing, am definitely not tone deaf, have a very good ear in that respect.

I was always in the duffers group in school art lessons, we were ignored by the teacher and I think probably spent most lessons gossiping! I have always wanted to draw and paint but thought you needed a 'talent'. Wrong! On retirement I signed up for a beginners art course and have realised that the best way to learn something is just to get on and DO IT. I will never be an artist, but I have great fun playing with paint and having a go at different techniques. Sometimes I like the final result, mostly I can just see what is not right about it! All the friends I have made through art lessons have been positive and supportive, we all realise that we are in it to enjoy ourselves and learn along the way.
We give up too quickly when we aren't perfect very quickly, but it's practice that is the way to get better. Some of us just need an awful lot of practice!

To HildaJ. I have just bought an electronic piano. I had some lessons when I was eleven but was not very good at it. I wondered if I was wasting my money but I love it I bought a book called ' It is never to late to play piano'. Would recommend and I am teaching myself st mo.

I, too, wish I could sing. I was forbidden to sing in primary school by my teachers as my notes were so off!

I would love to sing . I have a tin ear. I would love to learn dry stone walling( just back from the Lakes)

There's a long list, but the things I'd really love to be able to do are...
Swim (terrified of water)
Sing (can't even carry a note in a bucket)
Plaster....walls etc (how much cash could I save?)
Speak Russian (no special reason, would just like to)
Sketch/draw/paint, I was 'asked to leave' art class at school as the other girls were so busy laughing at my feeble efforts that they weren't getting on with their own work!

I wish I could swim better (good exercise)
I wish I could knit - never could learn
I wish I could decorate cakes (can bake fine but...)
I wish I could ride a bike these days but scared to try went everywhere on my bike before I passed my driving test (1st time at 17)
I wish I could just get on with the jobs I hate (ironing/cleaning the oven) & not spend time prevaricating (that's why I'm sitting at my lap top checking e-mails & responding)
I wish I could do the "hard landscaping" my garden needs instead of waiting until I can afford some-one to do it

Roller skate and ice skate (was a very nervous child so never tried), cartwheel (probably too old for that one now!) drive (never had the finances)
But I can knit, crochet, sew (a bit, learning, wary of the sewing machine!)and I can cook a bit. Oh, and I read a theatrical bedtime story!

Wish I could tap dance always wanted to do that and would love to have Julie Waters personality

I wish I was good at "socialising"/small talk. I am terrified of too many people, I usually hide in the kitchen or go round passing food round.

I wish I could : -
Play a musical instrument, preferably the piano;
Sing as well as DD who is cantor in her church
understand jokes... they go right over my head
Have had a real career - mothering wasn't/isn't considered a career
Etc., etc.

I wish I could be a published author. I did write a book once, but it was rejected everywhere in the universe. It was a fantasy about cats..I thought it was exciting, but it was probably rubbish.

Despite trying to be fluent in French for most of my life, nobody understands me in France. I wish I was good at languages.