Reading books. I used to be so into it as a kid, but once I got to my teen years I just couldn't anymore. Every few years I try again and manage to read a few books, but then just stop and never go back. Just last year I tried again, read 10 books, and then just stopped.
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Skiing is still top of my list for this but I know I would be too clumsy to do it at a level I would be happy doing. Plus I really really hate ski lifts and cable cars, they scare me to the point I will just avoid anywhere that relies on them to get about.
Diving is something I want to do, but not yet made the time or money available to learn, I know I will at some point.
Knitting
knitting and crocheting are fucking black magic to me. I hope you decide to pursue it. I think it's amazing.
I am thinking about starting. Only my adhd thinks of the learning courve and that takes me away from it
Pottery!
Nothing is stopping you from picking up some air-dry clay and making pinch pots if you can't swing for a wheel for some reason and don't have access to a kiln (although air-dry can also be thrown on a wheel). It's not like plaster, paper mache, or tile mosaics/stepping stones that need a lot of room to spread out due to just how messy those projects/media specifically can be.
There are things I really wanted to do but couldn't due to a crippling fear of heights. Rock climbing, parachuting, high diving all look so fun. But I find myself crawling back, shivering in fear, trying my best to control the panic attack.
Dude that's a good thing. I'm probably going to die from my lack of fear of heights someday. You're the normal one, not me.
but couldn't due to a crippling fear of heights
I grew up with a 50m cliff as a backyard.
Absolutely stunning view, the kind that super-wealthy people pay many tens of millions for these days. My parents picked it up in 1977 for practically a song because nearly all the construction companies came from the prairies and had no clue of how to develop on anything other than a pancake-flat piece of land.
But still. It installed into me a particularly overactive fear of heights. I have trouble getting onto roofs thanks to it. When putting up Christmas lights, my wife needs to hold the ladder, as I am tensed up six ways to Sunday by the time I’m at the top.
Skiing is just as bad. I can take most any slope up to and including a double black diamond. It’s only the triples I cannot handle, because that involves vertical drops.
So I understand that fear. Just not the desire to bodily leap out of a perfectly functional aircraft. That’s nuts.
Rollerblades. I'm afraid of speed. Even low speed for people is too high for me. I have no balance too. I can't ride a bike. But how cool would it be to be able to both move in rollerblades or riding a bike.
I used to rollerblade everywhere as a kid in the 90s. It was awesome.
Pottery! I'd love to have (even just access to) a small studio where I could make things and fire the clay.
Check out Andy Ward's stuff. If people in precolumbian America could do it, you probably can.