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ok I'm asking because i see teens my age and other younger and their good at something! like this 11 year old. he can skate very good skateboard that is. he can drum drums! idk what else he's good at these. and theres my age group. a 15 year old guy can play guitar. he can mechanic. play hockey very good. me? i try singing for 3 years nothing. i can't sing. i tried hockey for almost 2 years nothing. i tried guitar nothing. the only thing I'm good at is making videos. anybody can do that! and don't say i can do the same with the others because they require hard work. and making videos ain't that much hard work. just a day or 2 to know what to do. anyway my mom had me when she was 17. so i feel like a mistake. i keep getting bad illnesses and maybe its for to kill me the one who doesn't have a purpose in living. event tho i have dreams. but when i die. i can dream away forever.

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You have talent, you just haven't found YOUR edge yet. You may be well into your 30's before you figure it out - but you've got a gift, promise. Lincoln didn't find his until he was 50. Julia Child, wonderful chef - 48. Not saying you'll wait this long, or will be famous. (These things don't matter anyway. Look around you.) Just know that some people find their best later in life, vs. sooner. Point is, they didn't give up & they made a difference. Focus on doing what you love vs. figuring out what you do best. When you love doing something your talent follows, naturally, thru enjoyment & practice. Also, forgive your mom. To label a baby, esp yourself, a mistake is unkind, untrue & hurtful. Although our parent's choices were out of our hands, we're here for a reason & purpose. Don't laugh - if you think for a moment that you don't make SOMEONE happy - you're so wrong. I guarantee, somebody loves you, likes you, appreciates you, wants to be near you. If not today, or even tomorrow, down the road you will matter dearly to someone & make them smile, & happy. Your whole life is not summed up in just 15 or 20 years. You have a great trip ahead.

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Very true!!!
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i have no friends my family despises me. I'm a disgrace. what should i be happy about life right now? idk i want to be less sick and weak. even tho i tried gaining muscle i didn't. I'm just another person becoming an abomination. becoming an evil person that will never change if i get more older. if I'm 30 i will become evil if i hadn't accomplish anything. i want to kill kids and teens before their 30. thats one dream i will want if i don't complete the one i want right now. if being good doesn't do nothing i'll just make more dreams with the other way around.
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Sick people do get better. I was sick too, when I was a kid, but now I'm just fine. No more problems, for years now. The first half of my life was a mess, but believe me - it got better. About my mid 20's to 30's - & it came much faster than you can imagine. Warp speed, still. Also, I know/have known a few guys with muscles - & some of them were complete idiots. They were so wrapped up in themselves & their looks. Not fun to be around at all. Muscles have absolutely nothing to do with being a good guy, truly impressing others, or having talent - zilch, zero, nada. As far as your killing dreams go - these are serious, agree. You don't have to go to your mom about this if you don't want to, but you need to talk to someone right away. Just to vent. You're not as alone as you think, but you have to reach out to someone to talk to who understands & can help you sort things out. Even if it means walking down to your local church & talking to a pastor. Or rabbi, or priest. You don't even have to be a member of the church. Most will listen, keep your thoughts private & try to help, some way. But you have to believe you're worth helping. And you are, no matter how down & negative you feel right now. Feeling bad does not mean you're a bad person. Please try to separate the two thoughts.
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Find something you like and work at it. It may take a while but you'll get good. Never perfect though but hey, it's better to be a diamond with a flaw rather than a pebble without.

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THAT WAS THE BEST SAYING EVER!!!! Like seriously!:)
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no I'm very sick at the moment. I'm bleeding inside idk if it stopped but its where my heart area is. i wanted to die accomplished but if i do die. i know i was born by mistake. my brother is even greater than me. he can play hockey amazingly. i wanted to make my dad proud. I'm a weak human being. i almost died at birth so why am i living? its not a miracle its a mistake. i believe in god so if i meet him idk if he'll accept me. but f i do. he holds the answer. i lived only for 15 years. yet i feel like i lived enough to know pain. emotional and physical. my family sees me as a big guy for nothing. i see the same thing. i know i can lose weight but whats they point. i feel like dying. i see little sparkle of lights when I'm in pain. i try to make a purpose in life. but when i do. idk if its god stopping me when i become ill. but when i finally did something great. it was not so long ago. i almost died. i have no talent. just a man waiting for his death. they only last thing us humans have close to a destiny. my brothers and sister were meant for this world. while I'm the mistake.
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You're not a mistake. The reason you didn't die at birth was because you have purpose. I thought that too for the longest time. Still do but my homies convince me otherwise. All I see is a trouble making kid who's caused more pain and trouble than he's worth. Which is true. You'd be amazed at what I've done and I'm only sixteen. Most bad. Trust me, you have purpose and you may not realize it but admitting that you think you're weak and being able to evaluate your life like you have just goes to show how strong you really are. Things may not be good now but who knows? Things change. I'm sure you're gonna get through this and live a long, happy life and prove your family wrong. Just imagine the looks on their faces when you achieve what they think you never could. Use their doubt as motivation to become more successful than them and prove them motherf*cking wrong.
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im scared to die but i want to. I'm very weak. i can't fight any sickness. i can't take a little cut on one of my fingers and i almost fainted by that. i try to prove I'm something but just get hurt in the beginning of everything and only gets worse if i continue. everybody despises me around my town. when i first got the internet the world started to despise me. now on one major site whenever i go there. they see me as the same worthless big fat loser who has nothing better to do but go online all day! i can't even provide for my family! thats why i don't want to make my own. i can't even be strong for myself. every night i dream. i have a dream where I'm in a dark place. but when ever i sing and play guitar in my dream I'm really good at it. when i start doing that the darkness goes away then i see a light then an audience. but as we all know i can't do that stuff. then i stop playing the guitar and singing because its torture for me that i can't do that in real life. yeah i believe in god i always want to meet him spiritually or when I'm dead. I'm gonna try spiritually ask him why i was born. but i think its because he knows he will accept me but wants me to be a part of a family and see the world as how it is. my grandpa is a very spiritually man. but my mom saw my young brother age 13 the 2nd of my mom and dad. my mom saw god then god told her my brother was a prodigy or prophecy. after hearing that i felt more like a loser. now I'm starting to despise my brother but i love him so i still like him. maybe god put me on earth for him to become the prophecy or prodigy. he made me to become the one. the one who will become evil the next hitler. the next world danger. if so why? maybe because i was an awful kid when i was small. i probably made my future bad. but to tell you the truth. i don't remember my childhood. only age 8. what if god switched bodies with me? what if I'm my deceased uncle who died at the age of 1. what if I've been reborn? but just to see my brothers grown up and sisters. if so. I'm glad.
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Things will get better. I promise.
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dont promise something you can't make or keep.
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You're right, it's a promise I couldn't maintain even if I tried. We're both in not the best situations but you gotta push through. Thats the only way things get fixed.
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I can't make videos for ANYTHING. Don't give up! One day you can go into the film industry and become a director! I know you may think I'm just being nice or I don't know, but I'm telling you. Try new things, but embrace whatever you're good at. God put you on the planet for a reason!:)

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my parents did by mistake. god just did what he had to.
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You're not telling yourself the truth. My parents whooped me and stuff but that's nothing compared to what countless other people go through. However, I thought nobody cared about me, and everyone thought that I had the happiest life and I was never sad because I'm always smiling and laughing. Last year, I wanted to commit suicide. But I overcame everything, and I know my family loves me, and I'm really happy. I never faked all the laughing and smiling, but now every single time I laugh or smile, I know on the inside that everything in my life is amazing:) amazing friends, amazing family, a guy I REALLY like, a new amazing school that I got into for acting;), everything is going amazing. You need to talk to someone. I told my friend everything, and I don't think she really helped me too much, but she helped me, and I'm so happy now. So so so so so happy. Please contact me if you wants to talk. Just getting everything out made me feel a little relieved and I got out of the depression I think I was in pretty quickly. I know things could've been way worse for me. Some girls get raped, pregnant, beaten, abused, molested, everything. I'm so blessed that I'm way happier now:) I just want to thank God that I made it out. I haven't even gotten a whooping in an extremely long time.
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i have no one. thats the worst. alone since the day i could walk and talk.
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Do you know how i found someone? I gave MYSELF hope. I found hope too. You can do anything if you work at it. It may take a very long time, but its worth it! You know, you'll have a bunch of people on your side once you let them help you. I could help you, meet some new people, try some new things.
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nahh. i want to become a simple man waiting for his only salvation.....death.
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Everybody has a talent. I know your good at something. :)

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i tried almost everything i like and want to do! if I'm good at something I don't like i'd rather die.
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Everyone has talents. Some are less obvious than others. For example, some people are good listeners. It's not something they can perform and do tricks for you. But when you consider how terrible most people are at listening you'll see it really is a remarkable talent. Keep a broad and open mind about it and I'm sure you'll discover what your talents are.

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Don't feel like you have no talent you can make videos and not everyone can do that I can barely type your good at that right so there u go u have talent.:D hope I helped.

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i have no life so i rather die please.
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How do u have no life?
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no purpose in living. no body cares.
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I'm sure plenty of people care your just not not seeing it
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people use me. i don't have a purpose. and if i really don't have one. i guess making a purpose will be good. but i wanted to be born with a talent that leads to a purpose. i have no talent. so i'll make an evil purpose if i don't have one.
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You being good at computer could be huge if u study u can go to collage that's all about that stuff u could become a movie person or the next Bill Gates
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Stick with making videos for now, you could develop a new outdoor hobby and get some great footage for your videos and develop some marketable skills

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no.
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trust me. you ARE NOT a mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i learned this from the movie Hugo: you know how there aren't any missing pieces from a machine that you don't build? well god made everybody to accomplish something in life. you're not just a extra person on the earth you came here to do something on earth!!! who knows!!! you may be the next Steven Spielberg!!!(hope this helped!!!!:)

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movie are made up. nothing you see in a movie is true.
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Movies are another way of telling stories. People have been telling stories since the beginning of time, ever since we first huddled around a campfire. If you have a talent for telling stories, whether through movies or another form, you have a special talent indeed.
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I guarantee you are very talented at many things. Finding those things which you are good at takes your initiative to try them. So, surely there are things you would like to try doing, what are those things? And don't give up, there are countless beautiful things in this world/life that will bring you more happiness and joy than you ever would've imagined possible.

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no if i finally know my talent at an old age i only have a few years of living it so screw that.
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Apparently you have it all figured out negative native
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You are very talented at understanding yourself and explaining thugs so others can too. That is important.

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Two things. Number one. Feeling that your life has no purpose, and it may be better to end it, is fairly common for someone your age. No one ever tells you that being a teen is the toughest six years of your life. My son was also a mistake. I thank God for him every day because he is my only child. You aren't the mistake, the circumstances of your conception were. I was dumb enough to wait until I was 31 to see a counselor. Be smarter than me, see one now. Number two. You are taking your natural talent for video making for granted. There is a lot of difference between a good and bad video. Nothing drives me crazier than a poorly-made video on YouTube. It's all shaky, doesn't follow the action, goes here, goes there. You are selling yourself short because you just don't feel good about anything right now. I can promise you this. If you see a counselor, and you try really hard to listen, you will find some peace of mind. You can choose your own thoughts. You can make them come and you can make them go. When they get too gloomy, deliberately change them. Obsess about taking videos and keep practicing. Keep the faith. You are more wonderful than you know.

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Thanks for taking the time to tell him this.
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what has your son accomplished in his life? did he have friends when he was 6? did he have talent? did he have a person who actually cared about him? yes i think he does because he had a purpose.
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dashing. Your comment confuses me. I didn't say my son was six years old.
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bluesun. My real thanks will be in knowing you're out there taking fantastic videos.
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First off there are no mistakes when it comes to being born. You may've been a surprise to your parents but God doesn't make mistakes. He ordained your birth a long time ago. Know that
If your into making videos pursue it with everything inside you. I have a friend who is an accomplished and extremely successful photographer and he also has won awards for his videos. You can see his work at markadamsphotography.com. I guarantee it will inspire you. Cling to faith and believe in yourself. let me know what you think if you visit that website. GO FOR IT.

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Nice answer - babies are never mistakes.
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