• hOrni@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    This is stupid. I’m pretty sure it’s still acceptable to sing badly.

    • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 hours ago

      I kinda agree, you are “allowed” to sing or dance or paint just because you want to and not to get good at it, nobody is going to yell at you for that.

      But on the other hand I feel like a large amount of people won’t even try something for fear of being bad at it. I don’t think they explicitly think of it this way but “the only point of doing something is to be good at it” is the implication of that attitude.

      (That’s not to say that you shouldn’t seek to improve your skills if that’s something you enjoy. Just that ‘trying to get better’ isn’t a prerequisite for doing anything at all. You can have fun and enrich your life while sucking at something.)

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      11 hours ago

      Also im certain that people have wanted to dance and sing well since the dawn of time.

    • supamanc@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      But also, it’s natural to want to get better at things you enjoy doing, to push yourself, so you can enjoy doing more difficult, and rewarding aspects. Also, as bird sing and dance to attract a mate, I’m pretty sure they would all want to get better at it.