Five things you don't have to know how to do

Decorating cupcakes and cakes is a fine art, you don't have to know how to do it perfectly. Photo / Getty Images

You don't need to master everything in life. Here are five things that are okay not to know how to do.

Sometimes it seems there are so many things we should be doing with our time; keeping a bullet-point journal, embroidering swear words, trading bitcoins, embroidering bitcoins into our bullet-point journals. It's overwhelming. But it's okay to not do things, especially if you don't want to. Here are five things it's okay to not know how to do.

1: Cake decorating

Originally a tyranny visited on parents, now anyone who recklessly bakes so much as a cupcake is supposed to be able to turn it into a reasonable facsimile of Elsa's ice castle with only a splort of blue buttercream. To master cake decoration you need special nozzles, a working knowledge of fondant and some panache with ganache. But you don't have to. There are things called bakeries, where no one expects you to make your own edible glitter and where Peppa Pig looks like Peppa Pig, not something that needs a truss.

2: Gardening

Plants and veg always dying? Don't worry. It's okay not to know how to garden. Photo / Getty Images

Some people plant by the phases of the moon, separate their bulbs, or legend has it, trim the laterals, but it's okay not to know how to garden. You could spend hours coaxing a cucumber to adulthood only to find the supermarket giving them away. A seedling costs as much as a kilo of the vegetable it could — but won't — produce. You know what's cool these days? Wildflower meadows. It gets you off the mowing too.

3: Twitter/Tweeting

You may think you're missing out on not know how to use Twitter, but you're not. Photo / Getty Images

You'd be forgiven for thinking that all the twittering about Twitter must mean something important happens on there. When you log on though, you can't see where to reply and no one favourites your tweet, even though it's about cats. It's okay to not know how to Twitter. Every time it seems like you're missing out on some trending zeitgeisty hilarity, it turns out to be just some game where you replace a word in a movie title with the word "bottom".

4: Planning a holiday

Booking flights, accommodation and organising a trip is hard work. Photo / Getty Images

The person who makes the travel plans has to cover basics like flights, hotels and getting from one to the other without it turning into the plot for Taken 4. Unfairly, it also falls on them to plan a bunch of fun activities that everyone will roll their eyes at. This is not fun. It's okay not to be the social director of your own vacation. The hotel can organise some tours, or even better, you could go on a cruise where you can travel, sleep and be entertained all within arm's reach of the buffet.

5: Wearing full contour

If you can't do a full contour, don't feel like you have to wear one or just get someone else to glam your face up for you. Photo / Getty Images

If it seems like everyone is doing makeup tutorials, they are. In the hope of fame or being sent free makeup, everyone is overdrawing their lip liner like it's 1994 and posting it online. It's okay not to know how to do YouTube makeup. You have a face and your face is okay without glitter contouring or a dot of highlighter on the end of your nose that looks like you forgot the mattifying wipes. Highlighter is just the icing on the cake — and remember, you don't have to do that either.