Who I Am! (The Steemit Untalented Story)

in philippines •  7 years ago  (edited)

Who am I?

That question I tried to reflect about myself after reading @surpassinggoogle which you can find in this post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@surpassinggoogle/steemit-s-untalented-is-in-beta-participate-freely-because-every-participant-in-this-contest-will-win-something-no-losers

It actually made me realize about appreciating my worth as a person and the talent (and the untalent? LOL) that I have. It made me feel special as I lacked self-esteem and confidence. I tried to dig in about myself, then I found gems about me.

What do I like? First is music.

Well, I gotta base on what's on my profile. The first word you can read is "music". Yeah, I love music. I have been a music fan more than 2 decades ago. Since I am 33 years old, I am at my teenage years when I began to love music.

Again, I love music, but it seems music doesn't love me. I am not gifted with voice that I ever asked for. LOL! I always dreamed of having the voice of the two main vocalists of Boyz II Men! Until I went to a lower range but soft and beautiful vocals of Ed Sheeran.

As @surpassinggoogle mentioned, everybody can sing. Yes I can sing! But not something that your ear drums can manage to listen to. LOL!

I love arts!

I love arts as well!
I am going to show you a sketch of my face!
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Do you think that's a better art? I drawn something better!
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Cool, isn't it? (LOL!)

The first sketch was actually sketched by a friend of mine, and I never expected she has drawn my face. Not exactly how I look like but the effort was well-appreciated.

I tried to deliberate my sketch and I can say, it's not so bad. (chuckles!)

Just like music, I love art but I wasn't gifted with such talent! (Lol!)

I love entertainment!

If you ask me if I can entertain, I think I can. At least, I have some humor which can make my friends laugh. (chuckles!)

I love watching movies, particularly superhero movies. Never mind whether it is from Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) or DC Extended Universe (DCEU), I would love to watch them!

I want to be a photographer!

I love photography! Apparently in my page, you can find photography posts. I don't consider myself a professional one. I don't even have a DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera, and I am just using my 3-year old phone. Hopefully, I can make an investment on a professional camera out of Steemit earnings.

I love traveling.

I might've not experienced traveling overseas but I would love to, in the future. I have been to different places in my own country, and it helped to satisfy my crave of traveling. If I am able to earn that much here, I will spare some money to save for travel.

Trying to learn psychology

If I can go back to my college days, I could have took Psychology as my course. I took Computer Science in college, but I had Psychology subject which became my favorite subject. I am doing some research about Psychology for some knowledge about human behavior and psychological conditions.

Living with anxiety disorder

A lot of people may not be open in this topic, but I admit, I am suffering form anxiety disorder. I never consulted a specialist though as I can still manage it. Aside from that, consulting a professional can be costly in a developing country. I never actually expected this. I only realized about my condition when I honestly checked it and self-examined. I realized I already had the manifestation when I was still a child.

I admit, I get depressed as well. From time to time, I get visited by depression but I won't
let it conquer against me. I once spoke to my brother about it, but was unenthusiastic to listen and hear about what I'm feeling. Okay, I can manage though. Hhmmm.

I love writing poetry

I am not a professional writer or a poet, I admit. But poetry is my avenue to write what I feel. My pain and joys, I do write them. In fact, I had written some poetry that I posted here.

I am a signer and I communicate in sign language

It is the field that I had taken more than 11 years ago. I joined a congregation in sign language, and we teach deaf or hearing-impaired people some values and even sign language, as majority of them never attended a decent school for the deaf.

I am also volunteering in a vocational school in Dagupan City, which was under by Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). I also became an interpreter before in Breaking Barrier for Youths (BBY), another division of DSWD for deaf people. Recently, I served as the interpreter at a wedding of two deaf couple.

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That's me teaching a deaf person in sign language. (Sorry for the edit. I want to spare a bit of my anonymity, LOL!)

Dancing is my frustrated talent

I felt frustrated for not having a talent in dancing. That's why I have no confidence in dancing in weddings. I have two left feet! But I am glad to conquer when I joined my friends dancing at a deaf couple's wedding.

I consider this as an introductory post

I haven't had a formal introductory post as I never indicated some things about me on my first post. Well, I consider as my FORMAL introductory post too. :)
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Losing my parents

I lost my mother 10 years ago, and my father 6 years ago. But the cut is deep that it won't get healed easily. I love and miss my parents so dearly.

We are all special!

I believe we all have talents! We may not have the talents that we want, we have talents in different field. So are we untalented? I gotta give my own definition for "untalented" as "special", because I believe we are. We all have the gift from our Grand Creator!

Thank you for stopping by guys, and reading my posts with some idiosyncrasies! :)

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You have a very well "Untalented" talent that you have! At least we know some of your "being" as part of Steemit family member, iyanpol12!

Thanks kuya! Those words touched my heart. Seriously.

Hi @iyanpol12, nice to meet you!
You have a talent for a very friendly smile, judging by the sketch by your friend :)

Thank you dear. :)

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

very beautiful art, Your story is very beautiful. Your words are good.

Thank you for the kind words. :)

Friend, yes we are all unique that even cloning has differences. Hope you'll win friend.

Thank you friend. It is not actually a contest when someone loses, I think friend.

Me too have a left foot in dancing. Really hate to dance but I can go for showdown if I am drunk. Haha. I indeed agree, we all have our skills that our almighty God shared to us.

Lol! You might be the best dancer when you're drunk. :)

i can related some of your background story @iyanpol12

The sad part Sir Bo?

wow you are great...you have a good talent and dancing is a frustrated talent fior me too...keep up

Hehe. How about singing po ate?

You have a great talent, I want also to learn how to do sign language.

Thank you @syd30. I think we all have a talent.

KNowing about you more Iyan. :)

Thank you po. :)

We have a lot in common!

It feels good when someone knows your pain.

Impressive! I truly enjoyed reading this. Thanks for sharing.

Thank for stopping by sir.

I can relate in music and arts. LoL...

Music and arts doesn't love us. Lol!

You have a nice personality and a great choice. Music rocks

i m sorry for for your parents

Thanks for the compliment sir.

you are welcome

seems we both have the same frustrations in the talent of music , paintig or drawing and photography

mami daisy, your photography are great!

halos lahat ng hilig mo ay hilig ko rin kaya lang takot akong gawin minsan mga gusto ko kasi takot akong pintasan .buti na lang kahit papaano nagagawa ko ng magtiwala sa kakayahan ko paunti unti..

Tama po ate. Kelangan din may gawin. Ako natakot sumayaw, pero nakasayaw. Hehe.

Hello iyan. You know what, we have a something in common. I also suffer from high anxiety and every now and then, it hits me. Honestly, it's a crappy feeling and I don't like it. Some people don't get it but once you're in it, it's hard to let go. I am including you in my prayers. You're a good person and if you only focus on the positive, little by little, you can overcome this. Also, we both like photography. Good luck and you have a good day!

Thank you for the encouragement ate. Yeah, anxiety attacks in an unexpected time and gives you a feeling of uncomfortableness. I always try my best to think positive. Not working at all times, but it helps a little.

You found yourself within this post and came out so beautifully. It got easy to reach the person of your heart. In reality, if you keep writing in this manner, with time you will start earning more on steemit. Overall, you are on steemit at good times and steem now has potential to get to 10 dollars or more with recent events with #smt. Travelling is so possible soon. Plus, you will be touching on those other talent desires soon. The whole "untalented" thing is an initiative and will have many variations of activities. Your craving for liking psychology tells alot about you too. I haven't read any of the books regarding psychologies but i do have natural gifts when it comes to that. Overall, it stems from love for humans; "love" being key. Cameras; you will have those. Stay awesome. It has not been easy to read so many entries, so will run now

I am very glad you spent some time to read my blog. Thank you again for those motivational words.

wow! you have great drawing skills. Nice art work and the shading of the image is great.

That's not my drawing actually.

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sorry about loosing your parents just know that they are in heaven protecting yhu