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Wish i could write Poetry..........then again wish i could do lots of things.............Swim properly..........Sing properly..........play a Musical instrument (even badly)............what do you wish you could do ?

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When our son was very young he joined the Church Choir. He loved it. I was one of the parents who made the tea, washed up and looked after the little ones when the choir went to events. I used to list

I wanted to become an airline pilot. I had originally been accepted to do dentistry at university but had a change of heart (didn't want to be looking into people's mouths for the rest of my life!) I

My daughter about 8 years old at the time had an idea that she wanted to learn to play the piano. So she commenced piano lessons at the Frederick Parnell school of music on Derby Rd, being taught by M

You could write poetry, ben...  and it doesn't have to rhyme (sorry Chulla)  If there's something that touches your emotions, perhaps something beautiful/soul stirring or even something you've experienced that's really sad or hurtful, just  write down your thoughts and feelings on paper as they come into your head.  Then it can be put into some semblance of order later (if necessary).  It's the feelings and emotions behind the poem that are important, not the actual layout, unless you want to write sonnets, or limericks like Jill's in which case there are rules!   Describing your feelings/memories in pictures may help, also using descriptive language like Chulla's 'confetti for the dead'  (I thought that was brilliant Chulla btw)  Do you read poetry?  That can inspire as well as being enjoyable in its own right.  

Here endeth the poetry lesson ....  I suppose this should have been in the poetry thread!  Sorry.

 

I wish I could play the piano properly  instead of just tapping out a tune with one finger.  

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Thanks for that Margie,..............i have in sad times tried to put my thoughts into some sort of order on paper and almost made it...........but found myself too overcome to finish the piece (still have it)........i love, and do read Poetry when the mood takes me,i too found 'chulla's confetti for the dead' very poignant...........

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Actually, I hate limericks! Not too keen on rhyming poetry either. Much prefer blank verse. Verse will usually just appear in my head and drive me to distraction until I write it down . Usually, if I sit down and make a conscious effort to pen poetry, nothing will come. It's the same with most written forms, I find.

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#4. No Margi, I never read poetry, and never have. Writing it has not made me change my habit. I would not want to be influenced. You might wonder why I added the hymn to the end of the Titanic poem - me, an atheist. There again you might have guessed. That was the hymn that the band played near the end. 

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I wish my Mother had taught me how to play the piano, she was a good pianist

but I wasn't interested and she didn't push me.

I wish I had gone to university, the whole experience of leaving home going into

digs meeting new people even the lectures. It still sounds so exciting to me. 

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It's a shame that you have never read the great poets, Chulla. They have a great deal to teach us. Shakespeare, the  metaphysical poets and especially poets such as Rabindranath Tagore, Rumi, Bhatrihari and others, although only in translation,offer a wealth of wisdom about life. They are an education in themselves.

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Yes, Chulla, I realised why you wrote the hymn at the end, but I read somewhere that this wasn't actually played as the ship was sinking, it was just put in the film to make it more poignant.  Who knows....

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I would like to have become an airline pilot.  There seemed to be no hope for a lad of working class parents in the fifties to ever have achieved that desire.  So I had to lump it and be an electrician.  Probably should've joined the RAF.

 

Had some good days as an electrician at Toronto airport.  Got to have a sit down in the cockpit once or twice, but didn't dare push any buttons.  I didn't want to make a hole in the terminal.

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I wanted to become an airline pilot. I had originally been accepted to do dentistry at university but had a change of heart (didn't want to be looking into people's mouths for the rest of my life!) I got a place with the BEA college, subject to a medical which I failed. Poor eyesight - good eyesight essential for a pilot apparently. So I got some spectacles and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Subsequently I got my private pilot's licence - with glasses, so I won in the end and my first flying lesson, strangely enough, was with my dentist who was also a flying instructor. Funny old world.

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Looking back on my life and apart from the two things I listed in an earlier post I think I did everything I wished for as a kid and later in life as well so all in all to coin a phrase "I did(do) it my way"

 

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I wanted to be a psychiatrist when I was at school but that requires scientific prowess which I didn't possess or, more to the point, wasn't inspired to study. I think it was just that I'm nosy and like to know what goes on in people's heads, how they think and what motivates them. I'm still fascinated by the personalities of those who commit murder and why behave as they do. I love to analyse things in general.

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10 hours ago, loppylugs said:

Got to have a sit down in the cockpit once or twice, but didn't dare push any buttons.

 

I did. When I was a young apprentice at RR Hucknall, I was given the job of helping one of the coppersmiths, who was running instrumentation piping from a static Avon jet engine on an outside  testbed into the control cabin. Fitters were working on the engine. When a pipe had been run to the instrumentation rake, I had to take it back into the workshop, cut it to correct length and braze a nipple on the end. Had to do this many times - boredom set in. In the control cabin was the testers' panel with throttle, instruments and switches. Of course none of it would be live - would it? So I pretended to drive the engine, flicking down the switches. All of a sudden there was a winding-up noise and out of the jetpipe speedily wriggled a fitter. He had heard the engine winding-up and the ignitors cracking away. He came into the cabin, gave me a bollocking and pasted me 'ead with his cap.

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How long have you got?

 

I wish I could stop being so anxious. It's very wearing but even with help I have battled with anxiety for most of my life.

 

I always wish I'd learned to play an instrument and maybe been in a band rather than just playing other people's music as a DJ.  Like most young people I had a few stabs at playing guitar but never got much beyond C, F and G7 chords.  I have very little clue about musical notation either.  It may be that it's a symptom of my other weakness in Maths, because it often seems the case that those who are good at maths are good at musical notation.

 

On the other hand, I suppose if I'd really wanted it enough I'd have put more effort in.

 

Just to be picky,... (  "Surely not?  Not Col!!!" they cried..."  :)  ) .. a Psychiatrist is a qualified Doctor of Medicine who specialises in treating patients with mental health issues/illnesses and is also able to prescribe drug therapy.  A Clinical Psychologist  is also degree qualified in Psychology and tends to work with people serious mental health issues.

 

Psychological Therapists may or may not have a degree in Psychology but tend to work with those who have issues such as anxiety or phobias for example by using techniques such as cognitive behavioural therapy or other 'talking therapies'.

 

It's all here:  http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/healthadvice/treatmentswellbeing/faqshowtogethelp/faqdifferencesbetween.aspx

 

There was a fair bit of psychology in both my degree and post grad courses, which I found fascinating. For what it's worth I hold a Psychological qualification with the splendid title of 'British Psychological Society Level 'A' Competence in Psychometric Testing'.  In practice it means I am (or more likely was..) qualified to evaluate, select, apply and properly interpret the results of Psychometric Tests to aid the Career Guidance process.  Just a one week course and a bit of homework involved, but if nothing else, it stil helps me to see through the uselessness and potential misleading nature of many so called 'tests', which are just sold for profit.

Lecture over....  ;)

 

Both of my neighbours daughters are qualified Clinical Psychologists.

 

Back to the wider topic.  I suppose many of the things I wish I could do might be possible if I put them higher in my list of priorities.

 

Col

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I can't think of anything I wish I hadn't done! Even 5 plus years at the dreaded Manning Penitentiary was character building in a tortuous sort of way. If I had done anything differently, I wouldn't be who I am and I'm quite content with who I am. After all, I can't and wouldn't want to be anyone else!  :rolleyes:

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I enjoyed my time at the Manning school when it was on Robins wood road,I perhaps think the same as you Jill, if I thought I was going to wish I hadn't done something I probably wouldn't have done it anyway

 

Rog

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Re #18. I too wish I could play an instrument. I did have piano lessons up to the age of 14, and passed many exams, but I couldn't play anything for the life of me now.

Col, I've sensed recently that you must be anxious and a worrier, but try and do something I keep being told. That is, 'If you can't do anything about a certain problem, then leave it, and carry on with life '. Hard to do, I appreciate.

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