I don't know.

Have you ever seen The Talented Mr Ripley? Well I haven't, but I did see a very short clip of it the other day and a character said, 'Everybody has one talent, what's yours?' I'm fairly certain the film is fictional but I think that line rings true in real life as well. (You can have more than one talent mind. Look at Kanye West, he's talented with music, fashion, being future president, everything.) So what's my talent? I'm incredibly good looking, extremely intelligent and absolutely hilarious but I don't think they're talents as such.(Oh, and of course I'm unimaginably sarcastic but that's definitely not a talent, if anything it just makes me a bit of an arrogant idiot, see previous sentence.)

I have a lot of good personal qualities and there are things I'm decent at doing but nothing which I'd say I am talented at. I used to be the self titled Risotto King but given I haven't used a kitchen knife for over a year now and if I tried to stir anything in a pan it'd only ended up on the floor (Tremors!) I don't think this is my talent right now. (I hope not anyway!) So assuming this fictional film isn't lying to me I have an undiscovered talent! That's very daunting in some respects, I'm getting old, when will I find said talent? (Should I apply for Britain's Got Talent now and hope I've found it by the time the audition comes around or wait until my talent has revealed itself?) On the other hand, it's very reassuring. I haven't made my millions yet, I haven't even got a job!

There is a lot of uncertainty. Do I have to find my talent or will it reveal itself? Do we go Dutch and meet in the middle? I'm visually impaired , what if my talent has revealed itself and I didn't see it? What if I can't find it? What if the film is lying?

I suppose the only thing I can do is try new things, see what I'm good at. My first such attempt will be trying my hand at poker. (Pun very much intended.) It's a game centred around maths, probability and statistics which is something I used to be good at so we'll see how I fair.

Let me be the first to acknowledge this blog has been absolute nonsense for the most part. I'm sorry if you've wasted your time in reading it but in my defence I'm really bored! Maybe writing utter bollocks is my talent? Maybe I should become a journalist for The Sun?

The title of this blog by the way is a song by Lisa Hannigan. It's beautiful, check it out and then this hasn't been a total waste of time for you.