Analogies

[primeideal]

Tower bells are like cars because I regularly surround myself with people who know how to operate them, whereas I'm going "this is hundreds of pounds of metal and you treat it with the reverence of a loaded weapon that could seriously hurt someone?? you expect me to control this??" and after things inevitably go wrong I freak out which causes me to be even more anxious and inept, and also I look like I'm about fifteen, which I'm not.

I don't know what handbells correspond to. I like handbells.

Comments

[isis]

Bicycles?

[landofnowhere]

I totally get this! When I was learning to handle tower bells I was twitchy and anxious and it just made everything worse. I did eventually get through this, and now I like (and miss) tower bells.

I learned to drive a car at the age of 33 after moving to the midwest, and there were absolutely moments in my driving lessons where I was telling myself "I can ring Plain Bob Major, I can do this!"

Handbells I am not very good at, but I lack practice. ("I have to keep track of 2 bells now, and the bells don't have momentum?") When ringing on virtual bells (which is pretty much all I do now, I need to actually make plans to get to a tower sometimes) I'd rather ring 1 bell than 2.

Enjoy the AGM (assuming that's where you're at)!