Special Talents

For a long time I've wondered if I have any special talents that aren't commonly possessed by a large population of people. I can solve fifteen puzzles pretty fast (not as cool as the Rubik's Cube, which can really impress people), I have really straight teeth, my hair has the ability to grow incredibly long, and I can do a cartwheel from my 3 1/2 years in gymnastics. But I just don't have all of the cool abilities that you hear of some people having, like break dancing, tap dancing, and beet boxing, among others. This is especially true in several domains of my life such as woodworking, measuring, drawing hands or faces, hairstyling, and team sports. In these ways I have absolutely no talent and will bring shame to my family if ever asked to perform one of these above tasks. I'm not kidding in the slightest about woodworking or team sports. For some reason I find it to be incredibly difficult to build things out of wood or play on a team for any sport ever imagined or proposed. If I ever was to be on your soccer team for whatever reason, never make me the goalie because I will singlehandedly lose the game for you.
I'm not too ashamed of my inability to play team sports though. I don't really see a point to possessing that skill unless you're in gym class. And after I got my two credits of gym freshman year, I was promised that I never had to take it again.
Team sports inject a tremendous amount of unneeded stress into the veins of insecure and physically weak girls like me. Competition, when the word is spoken, echoes in the most unpleasant way in my eardrums like the memory and premonition of past and future failures. Like my inability to effectively toss a frisbee, a football, and a baseball year after year since I was indoctrinated into the every-other-day gym class religion that is headed up by people that yearn for physically related achievements. These people are called "gym teachers", and are a specific kind of person that both spew incredible amounts of pep and manage to stay in shape as the years go by. If Michelle Obama wasn't a president's wife (and there is absolutely no research or added information going into this opinion), she would be a "gym teacher". Maybe not a literal gym teacher, but definitely one of those people that pushes for widespread exercise and healthy eating habits.
Like she does currently.
So today I urge you to look inside yourselves in order to discover what type of person you are. Did you enjoy gym class when you were forced to take it (also could be rephrased to ask, "Are you a boy?" or "Did you once aspire to become a gym teacher?")? Or are you one of those people that enjoys chocolate, reading for leisure, and playing indoors? I can assure you, I am the latter.