S2Q5. What’s something you know a lot about?

5 Jun

Written By GoneClements

I don’t really think I know a lot about anything and I think I know less and less as I get older. I think I know a lot about kids and how to support them and show them attention but whether that is true is to be judged by them. My experience of working with kids in school has given me the opportunity to try to help but I do wonder if I make much difference.
I don’t know loads about anything yet but I think I probably know the most about photography. I know about it because I have chosen it as an option in GCSEs and a level and have done it for three years. I have learnt how to use a camera and the different functions to change to get your photo to look a certain way and have learnt about different photographers and the different styles there are.
I don’t really feel like I know a lot about anything. I only know more than average in topics that people aren’t bothered about, and even then the people that are bothered know more than me.
I used to know a lot about different things but I’ve lost interest in most of the stuff I used to find interesting when I was younger. As much as it sounds like a cop out, I think I know most about, the only thing I actually know about is myself.
The only thing I really know a lot about is pitching roofs, from trussed to hand cut, valleyed or hipped on things from garages to blocks of flats. I've worked on them all. I know how to do all this because I wasn’t the best at my mafs or Engerlish when I was in school so I started doing carpentry at 16. I'm turning 27 next week so it’s that means it’s only taken me 9 years to learn everything I know.
I suppose I would have to say gardening at the moment, only because it's what I'm doing now.
It's something I never thought I would get into, even when I went down to see my dad and he would give me a box of veggie's I never asked him any questions(I wish I did now).
So hundreds of hours reading and watching YouTube videos, three bad backs, cuts, bruises, and a few bee stings I have probably produced about £50's worth of produce, but I'm still doing it.
I've learnt that the rats are one step ahead of you when things are ripe, and that the weather will destroy everything in one day.
The main thing that I have learnt is that gardening is a hobby full of disappointment, but if you get something right it's a sweet feeling and I'm now hooked!
I should say my job which I suppose I do, but don’t really enjoy it and get by , but my love is football, I loved playing when I was younger and enjoy watching, it’s very objective, so to say I know a lot about it might be presumptuous, but it’s the thing I know most about, particularly ManU, supported them since I was a boy through thick and thin and having played football for so many years I would like to think I have a good understanding of the game, I appreciate good football and enjoy watching great players and great teams over the years, it’s good because like I say it’s very objective so who I think is a fantastic team or player is another’s man’s idea of shit but it makes for great arguments particularly with them scouse bastards.
Football, I played in a team since I was eight and turned professional at sixteen. I finished playing when I was thirty four and got my full coaching badges and represented my country at three different levels. I think that just about covers it!
If there is something I don't know that I stumble upon, I'll research it and try my best to understand it. I like being capable of holding down a conversation with someone what ever the subject is and I'm genuinely interested in knowing new things, I have a thirst for it. So I'd say it's the other way, I know a little about quite a lot. If I were to pick one I'd say the sciences, especially physics and subjects like space and the nature of things and how they work. I hated the sciences in school because of all the writing, but as I've got older ironically im fascinated by them and with the internet, podcasting, documentaries etc I seem to take the information from that medium better than books so i just soak it up on a daily basis. The reason why - don't you think it's weird that we are chained to one planet by oxygen, that is whizzing around a void with no visible end and no one seems to know why or how! I need answers, what the fuck is going on. I had a conversation with someone close to me once and they'd never taken the time to learn what the sun is or what starts are or what the moon is and why it's doing what it's doing! - their answer was 'it's just the sun! All I know is it rises and falls and stars are just hanging lights in the sky'!'
They had never questioned it in their mind ever! Like thinking they were like the glow in the dark stickers you put on your bedroom ceiling! To me that's mental, I want to know what this is all about.
I know a lot about cooking. Not fancy cooking, but good old fashioned home cooking. From when I was tiny, my Mum would stand me on a little stool in the kitchen and teach me how to make cakes and pies. As I got older, she taught me how to make wholesome meals on a budget. I still cook like her to this day.
The thing I know most about is classical music. I frist learned to love it as a child and I learned piano. My parents were lucky as my sister used to play all of the latest “with it” songs and the classics. I took a long time to love violins, but I now love them.