Maybe competitive fighting video games for fun. My job doesn’t really let me focus on video games
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Judo. bc it's freakin' cool, but I'm at an age where just doing the warm-up drills are too much for me.
Surgery.
Why? Because I’m a surgeon.
Physics, all of it. It's such an interesting fields and I'd love to understand all the new discoveries without an article dumbing it down for me.
Music. Specifically woodwinds. Because I like them.
Languages definitely. I want to be able to pick up new languages with ease
An existing field?
I mean, if not, I think that it'd be a pretty easy call to be one that nobody is in, preferably one from the future -- now you have access to a bunch of unique and thus highly-valuable knowledge.
Japanese. It’s the one language that I need the most that I suck at learning. It just doesn’t make sense unlike Chinese. I have learned it for a while but it’s constantly flowing away from me.
I want to be a renaissance painter
Don't monkey pawn me
You’re burned at the stake by the church for your weird handheld light devicd
For me: Planetary science. We are making space discoveries every day. It'd be so cool to be in that room when that information comes across the computers and everyone discusses what the new discovery means.
I choose the skill of being able to open any food packaging (bacon, I'm specifically looking at you, here) quickly and easily without tools, weapons, or heavy machinery.