# Abilities you wish you didn't have

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abilities-you-wish-you-didnt-have/41500>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 16, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abilities-you-wish-you-didnt-have/41500 "2000-11-16T19:39:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abilities-you-wish-you-didnt-have/41500/41 "2000-11-22T05:17:42Z")

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I wish I could only care for a few people, and those that leave me behind or hate me would not be among them.

I wish I didn’t fall “in love” so easily.

I wish I didn’t miss people.

I wish I didn’t have such a good memory as to recall every conversation, whether painful or not.

I wish I had the nerve to talk to most people without being nervous of what to say or how to say it.

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**Author:** ![LazarusLong42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@LazarusLong42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LazarusLong42)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abilities-you-wish-you-didnt-have/41500/42 "2000-11-22T06:55:34Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Fretful Porpentine \*  
> **I wish I didn’t have a permanent, phonographically accurate memory of every conversation in which I’ve humiliated myself in any way.**

I have that, too, and I wish I didn’t. The memories poke themselves out of my subconscious at the most useless times, as well, and for no apparent reason.

I also wish I didn’t have the ability to not see the future.

Let me explain…

I have an overactive imagination. This is good; I aspire to becoming an author (or, more correctly, a _paid_ author). Unfortunately, my subconscious often applies this overactive imagination to real life. My imagination takes the situation I’m in, and projects it forward a few hours, days, or years, generally projecting the worst posible scenario that could happen.

Thus, I cannot see the future, but I project possible futures that make me cringe at the thought.

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