I couldn't move my eyebrow

[Hygro]

I couldn't raise my left eyebrow. I could raise my right eyebrow fine. One day I was just able to awkwardly raise my right eyebrow and with a little practice, it got it down easy.

I could of course raise them together, but I not my left one by itself. It's not that the muscles wouldn't cooperate, they just didn't exist. No one was home.

It bothered me. How could I have zero control over that part of my body? I would stand in front of the mirror most days and just stare at it. I would will the thing to raise. But I had no feeling there at all. It was impossible. It could not be done. Often I would take my fingers and raise it manually as my last act before giving up that evening.

But I kept trying. Just staring at it. Then, one day, it just kind of popped up. I froze. It just stayed there. I still couldn't feel it, but I could feel that there was some kind of process, some connection.

I couldn't get it again for a month. But then it happened again. And a week later, again. Soon, I could raise it twice in a row. I could barely feel it. It was not under my control.

Eventually, nearly a year later, I had a breakthrough. At some point the muscles woke up properly. Ever since, I could raise my left eyebrow fine, in fact now better than my right. That was 10 years ago.

Sometimes I wonder what else in life I think is impossible, that there's no way to conquer it, no method to get through, but that really if I just focused on it hard enough, it would come to life.


What's your left eyebrow?

 

[Kyriakos]

Just move your left toe, or whatever the quote from that dumb movie was

 

[strijder20]

Thanks for sharing this story of heroic perseverance and continuing defiance in the defiance of all odds with us. It serves as an example that anyone who feels depressed because they cannot reach an important goal in life just have to persist, like you did in your epic quest for eyebrow rising.

That said, I just discovered I can't raise my right eyebrow and it annoys me. Thank you very much

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I couldn't raise my left eyebrow. I could raise my right eyebrow fine. One day I was just able to awkwardly raise my right eyebrow and with a little practice, it got it down easy.

I could of course raise them together, but I not my left one by itself. It's not that the muscles wouldn't cooperate, they just didn't exist. No one was home.

It bothered me. How could I have zero control over that part of my body? I would stand in front of the mirror most days and just stare at it. I would will the thing to raise. But I had no feeling there at all. It was impossible. It could not be done. Often I would take my fingers and raise it manually as my last act before giving up that evening.

But I kept trying. Just staring at it. Then, one day, it just kind of popped up. I froze. It just stayed there. I still couldn't feel it, but I could feel that there was some kind of process, some connection.

I couldn't get it again for a month. But then it happened again. And a week later, again. Soon, I could raise it twice in a row. I could barely feel it. It was not under my control.

Eventually, nearly a year later, I had a breakthrough. At some point the muscles woke up properly. Ever since, I could raise my left eyebrow fine, in fact now better than my right. That was 10 years ago.

Sometimes I wonder what else in life I think is impossible, that there's no way to conquer it, no method to get through, but that really if I just focused on it hard enough, it would come to life.

You've made a breakthrough in prana-bindu, without benefit of a Bene Gesserit teacher. I envy you.

(seriously, I've been annoyed for years that I couldn't be like Spock and have that degree of dexterity)

 

[Phrossack]

I'm quite handy with my eyebrows. I can raise either, or both, and can even do the wave with them in a way that is seductive/amusing/vaguely threatening/disturbing.

On the other hand, I can't raise my right ear at all. Only my left.

And my right shoulder (and both thumbs) can do this weird thing where it looks like it pops out of its socket whenever I want without hurting, but if it's pushed back like that it'll really hurt. My left shoulder used to be like that until sparring with a very large and tall friend "fixed" it painfully.

 

[Hygro]

Thanks for sharing this story of heroic perseverance and continuing defiance in the defiance of all odds with us. It serves as an example that anyone who feels depressed because they cannot reach an important goal in life just have to persist, like you did in your epic quest for eyebrow rising.

That said, I just discovered I can't raise my right eyebrow and it annoys me. Thank you very much

You just have to stare in the mirror long enough and all your wildest dreams will come true. All of them.

 

[eduhum]

I proud myself on having, as a small boy, acquired the capacity of moving independently and putting my left pinkie toe Over my annular left toe without any help of other parts of my body.
I realised, after severe and continuous attempts many years later to do the same thing with my right side pinkie toe, that these kinds of things are the ones you just are able to learn so much easier while you are still an infant, like learning to talking or walking.
Now continue with your life having acquired knowledge of capital importance.

 

[Crezth]

Thanks for sharing this story of heroic perseverance and continuing defiance in the defiance of all odds with us. It serves as an example that anyone who feels depressed because they cannot reach an important goal in life just have to persist, like you did in your epic quest for eyebrow rising.

"heroic" "epic" hahahaha

 

[Perfection]

My right eyelid

 

[Hygro]

Czerth this is serious!

My right eyelid

A sexy blink has its charm.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I can't wiggle my left eyebrow independently nor can I wiggle my left pinkie toe individually.

 

[eduhum]

I can't wiggle my left eyebrow independently nor can I wiggle my left pinkie toe individually.

Wow, I can't imagine a life without the knowledge and use of such capacities. My condolences

 

[El_Machinae]

 

[Hygro]

I can't play piano with both hands independent.

Let's go

 

[Kyriakos]

I can't play piano with both hands independent.

Let's go

Actually that is a thing.

It was the reason i gave up piano in mid elementary school. Couldn't accept that one hand had to act independently of the other.

"The right hand is unaware of what the left hand is doing", etc

 

[Lohrenswald]

How long would you stare in the mirror trying to raise an eyebrow?

I'm not sure if I said this in fiftychat, but a while ago I figured that almost everything I've wanted and trying to pursue was actually worthless, and I stopped trying to get any better. For example video games like civilization. I'm not good at it, and at this point I've given up trying to be.

The things I now see as worth anything are often much more imposing challenges, so I haven't really pursued those either. Some of them I have no concept of how to even. Other are very time consuming, so I don't do those since I think I should do school stuff instead (of course, I can't get myself to work with studies all the time, and my results have been dropping)

I can't actually remember any instance of struggling to achieve something and succeeding. Most of the time I've given up.

And for the record, I can't raise eyebrows individually or play piano.

 

[Kyriakos]

^What's the worse thing that can happen? Norwegian prisons are like hotels anyway