Day Seventy: Challenge

I like to challenge myself to learn new things.

Tonight I spent two hours learning how to fold origami fish out of dollar bills. My friend’s mom gave me some attached to a pretty scarf as a graduation present and I’ve been obsessed with teaching myself to make them. So far so good. I’ve actually managed to make a couple, although apparently I’m doing a completely different technique from the one my friend’s mom uses.

But I’m learning.

Teaching myself new skills is one of my greatest joys. Whether it’s cooking or drawing or a new cake decorating trick, I like to add them to my long list of random things that I know how to do. Need someone to rewire your house. I know how. Need someone to make balloon animals and do face painting for a children’s party. I’m your girl. (Actually, I hate children, so I might not be your girl.)

I like to learn and that doesn’t just extend to reading and languages. I like little things. Too often we see something cool and think to ourselves, “Hey, I’d like to be able to do that.” And then we never try.

I wanna try. And I want to keep trying.

Challenge to my Readers:

Find something small, anything, that you can learn today. Teach it to someone else.