Childhood dreams

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I was looking at the old childhood picture of myself. It`s black and white, and, probably, was taken at the kindergarden

If all kids are so cute and wonderful where do these nasty adults come from later on? :D

I looked at big eyes of the child i once was and tried to recall what were my thoughts, wishes and dreams.

I remember i always wanted a bike. Well, i had a three-wheeler, but soon it became too small for me. I did envy the guys who had a bike. Funny thing, i still don`t have one =) now i crave for folding Brompton, but looks like it`s still going to be a dream for a while

As long as i remember we had cats. We had three little dogs, while i was quite small, since i`ve turned nine - none. Always wanted big fellow, but like in that movie "The kid" with Bruce Willice younger me would go now 😲 "You don`t even have a dog!" :D But i`ve got two cats now, honey, one of them very cute

Mmmm... what i wanted to be? Geez, that many?!
I wanted to be veterinarian, but growing older found out that my squeamishness also grew up, sorry, kid, i still love animals but hardly can be a vet-doctor
I thought of being a teacher... Well, my educational background allow me to be one. But i lack certain skills, besides, people do change with time (wonder, is it always for better?) and i don`t want to be a teacher anymore.
I can`t be an astronaut, not even plane pilot, i`d spit my stomach and guts out into huge plastic bag :D But, kiddo, i still want to believe that one day i`ll be able to go under sails 😊

I didn`t make any outstanding discoveries or inventions, live in our small town, wasn`t in Africa and can`t ride a skate-board, don`t own a horse and
never jumped with parachute...
Hey, maybe, that`s why you look so sad on this pic? You knew i`d eventually fail you all along?
But, girlie, i am enjoying the life and still alive! Does that count? :D


So, guys, what were your childhood dreams? Which ones you fullfilled, which
ones are long forgotten, and which ones still have a chance?
 
When I was younger, I wanted to be one of two things. A forensic scientist working in pathology, and a hairdresser.
Well when I was twelve, I decided to apply for a job in a salon after schools and weekends. Of course being that young, nobody's going to give you a job doing something like that, even though it was a great passion of mine. So yes, I got shot down, and decided I hated the thought of hairdressing after that.
That brought me to being a chef. Two subjects I excelled in at school were Art and Home Economics. So I went in that direction, got a job in a kitchen at 14 (while still at high school of course) became a supervisor at 15 and stayed there until I was 17. Being a supervisor in charge of the midnight shift of a diner style restaurant was a big responsibility... especially when my staff were 20-40 years older than me. They didnt like that much, and I still hadnt grown the strength to yell and order people around. So I just let them do their own thing, and counted the money up at the end of the day.
Well I failed at my dream of working in forensics basically because I was a member of the naughtiest class in school, and it seemed that every science teacher hated us, couldnt handle us for more than two months, and we got changed constantly, so I never did well at any sciences.
Ok moving onto 16, I left school to work in a top restaurant, after working in several other top restaurants during school time as an effort for them to allow me to graduate, but not actually being AT school. The boss had all these false promises, and after a month of getting less responsiblity than the dishwasher had, and a greatly exaggerated wage decrease, I moved on and thought I might like to try out hairdressing.
Did that, was one of two people to graduate... everyone else failed. Got a job on my own, had a very strict boss that always made me cry, but she taught me many important life skills. Decided I wanted to work in film and televison, studied makeup, and special effects, and yeah... now im in Korea, hoping one day to be able to work in the industry here.

Probably my only other dream as a child was to meet my biological father, but my efforts to find him were futile, and as I got older I decided to forget about that.

Anyway I still have dreams and hopes for my future. But I think if all else fails I will settle as a housewife. Spend my days in the kitchen perfecting the art of cooking.
 
A cop, a stormchaser, and a video game designer. Guess which one I went with. :-)

Doc 🙂
 
From about since I was in third grade of elementary school, (age 9) I had wanted to be a rock musician and have that long hair, ragged bell bottoms, half-opened untucked shirt...the works. Well, that changed only after Jr. High (age 14) when I kind of went into a I don't know stage, no real dreams although maybe I leaned towards being a starving artist (painter). Then I wanted to do some sort of work that involved languages. Maybe that's the one that has come true--I've played numerous gigs on stage before audiences--of course no star though--and I have sold at least 6 of my some 20 or so paintings--but no Dali yet--and now here I sit, in my office at Matsumoto University, where I teach English (to mostly Japanese girls) as a foreign language. I still play, and paint, but they are my hobbies.
 
when i was 4 i wanted to be a ghostbuster and a paleontologist. dinosaurs and ghosts are cool! when i was around 6-8 i just wanted to go to japan, i think teenage mutant ninja turtles and samurai pizza cats played a big role. but that dream has never left me and i am living some of it now. oh it will be continued one day. one day muhuhahahahahahaha!
 
Ahhh the TMNT's!! I was a member of the fan club hehe. I think I spent my birthday money when I was 7 on that.
Mars Man, now Im going to have to steal not only the edamame, but Im going to be hunting around for some paintings too! Heheh, might have to theif some ragged bellbottoms... if there happen to be any lying around.

I forgot about my dream to come to Korea, and Japan when I was younger. I had a Korean penpal in 1988 and thats what started my fascination/obsession with Korea, and I had 2 Japanese friends when I was 7-8 who couldnt speak any English, and my cousin and I couldnt speak Japanese, but we got our grubby little hands on a Japanese Dictionary, rewrote it so we could understand it, and started learning Japanese.
 
I remember when i was like 5 or 6, i wanted to have a dog, but my mother was against it. She was like 'than i will have to take care of it'. Heh well i never got a dog, but i still wish to have one someday.:-)
 
I wanted to be a musician - either a guitarist or a singer (guitarist was my first dream, but later on, I took singing lessons and I thought "I would just as much like to be a singer"). But my dreams have not come true. :( I got illness during my early 20s, so, my playing got out of practice. Now I continue to work at my practice, but, I have left behind "high-school bands" and I have no band. :(

My other, how I might say my more "realistic" dream 😊 was to be a musical instrument technician (specialising in either woodwind or electronics). I couldn't study for this because I didn't have enough money and my parents wouldn't (and indeed couldn't) finance me.
 
I always wanted to be a teacher until I was about 15 - I used to line my dolls up and lecture them. Then I wanted to be an astronomer, but I wasn't very good at physics. I got my degree then started teacher training and hated it, so I dropped out. I never would have seen myself teaching adults how to use a computer and learn basic Maths and English - but that is what I am doing and I hate it! Anyway, I always was artistic, and I am sort of pursuing that now with my jewellery that I make. Also, I always said I would get engaged at 18, married at 21 and have my kids at 24, 25 and 28 (2 boys and a girl). Well, I got engaged at 16, again at 18, and married at 21 to someone else entirely :D . I haven't got any kids yet either, so I wasn't right about much of that! 😊
 
Iris is your little baby... and your ratties.
My teachers always told me that I would be a teacher, and that they hoped that my students would treat me as bad as I treated them. Bit harsh, but I just scoffed at it and said that I would never do anything of the type. haha now that I've taught at a summer camp, teaching is kinda fun. Not quite what I had planned for my career though.
Its great that you're Arty and make your own jewellery! Maybe you could have an online gallery here in Jref (I know you have some pics, pop some prices up!)
 
Think of a three-figure sum then double it! Only kidding, triple it! :D

I am working towards getting my own website - I'll put the link on my PP :-)
 
Thats great! I can only buy stuff if its made of real silver or Gold, I have very sensitive skin, even my favourite plastic bangle is irritating me!
 
I've always been told I should be a politician because I know the political game. Unfortunately I don't have the taste for the power, so I kind of nixed that one out pretty quickly.

Doc
 
play in the NBA

i came to Canada when i was 10, and about a month after we arrived, i started playing basketball, and the Vancouver Grizzlies just started, when i was in Hong Kong i read the comic Slam Dunk just before we begin moving and that really made me wanna play basketball.
when we came here, we lived in our grandpa's house, which is near the house we live in now, we went outside to look around, we played baseball on the field and then went to the basketball court, my bro had a basketball, he taught me the basics like dribbling and not to walk 3 steps and jump with the ball, however i took 3 steps and jumped with it and shot the ball from the three, and i scored flukely. few days later, i was so bored in the house, i took the basketball and went to the ball court, started learning and practicing by myself, since then, i almost practiced everyday, and spent hours on the basketball court, just want to have fun and become better and better, go to the States college and play in the NBA

however that dream is getting further and further away from me, height could be one of the reasons

throughout all these years, i keep hearing people saying Asians can't ball, Asians can't play in the NBA, and my Chinese classmates made fun of me when someone told them i wanna play in the NBA, but i ignored them and kept working hard.

Wang Zhizhi joined the NBA, Yao Ming became a superstar,numerous attemps from many Asians trying out, the 5 foot 8 Yuta Tabuse was very close to making the NBA.
one day, Asians will find a place in the NBA.
 
When I was about 6, I wanted to be on stage and sing at a fair but instead, I was forced to sing in front of some dead tree while my parents listened to see if I was good enough to be on stage.
In junior high, I wanted to be a costume designer for movie stars, but I had no clue how. That was also when I started to be interested in psychology and nursing, which I later on pursued.

My dream of coming to the US had been always there since I was very young.
My goal right now is climbing the 46 Adirondack high peaks and be registered as a Forty-Sixer.
 
Well, when I was a kid, my most cherished dream was to be----a trash man! That's right, a trash man!! For some bizarre reason I just can't explain, I was insanely fascinated with trash trucks and the men who worked them. During summer vacation, I would follow the trucks through my neighborhood on pick-up day for hours and marveled at seeing those machines in action. When I told my mom about my peculiar ambition, she was, to say the very least, disdainful and ordered me to consider more worthwhile pursuits. When I was 14, I went on a deep sea fishing trip with mom and some of her friends and being on a boat eventually fueled a new desire, to join the Navy which I did and spent 20 years in. I'll let you in on a little secret, even at the ripe old age of 46, I still enjoy watching trash trucks. I guess it's just an odd little passion I'll never outgrow.
:-)
 
Hmm, what did I want to be? Well, when I was really really little I had it in my head that I wanted to be a fire truck. Not a fireman, a fire truck, I was a strange little child. For a while I wanted to teach Judo, then I tried Judo, kinda fun, but wasn't for me. Then I decided that I simply wanted to do something with drawing, anything with drawing. Comics, illustration, advertising, whichever. And here we are.
 
It's interesting to read of people's different childhood dreams.

I think it's really important not to let go of your dreams. Of course, you don't carry on all your life wanting to be a fire truck! ( :giggle: ) In lots of ways your dreams and ambitions change as you mature. But, I have sometimes caught myself on the brink of the mindset which says: "you are too old to become like that now" or "it is too late". Maybe that sounds stupid to you, because I am not really "old" in the sense of nearing the pension age! But naturally as you become older, there are opportunities that you missed.

It's important to be in the energetic frame of mind which is aware that you can shape your future at any time in your life, no matter what is your age. It might seem obvious (it seems obvious to me when I write it down! 😌 ), but sometimes it is forgotten all the same. If you really want to do something, you can do it. It's true that as an "adult" you have more responsibilities; you have to continue to earn some money to live, for example, but also in many ways you have more freedom, too. Maybe to achieve your dreams you need to step out of your comfort zone, but it is completely your decision to make your priorities.

Lol - I'm not a good one to talk of this! 😌
 
My first memory was walking with my mother who was pushing a pram with my baby sister in it (i musta been 2 or 3 or something) and we were walking to my aunts house and i remember asking my mum "where are we going?" and she said "to see auntie ******" and i then said "who is that?"

My earliest memory. 😌

My second earliest memory i think was walking along with my mum and thinking if the world went on forever or had an edge, i emagined the world going on forever exactly like my area of rolling english countryside and houses like the ones that made up the town i lived in. ( i seemed to had made up my mnid the world was flat...hey this was before i went to school....)

I have a few memories of my first "kinddergarden", one being going home with my mum, i saw my best friend and ran round the corner to him but he was gone, so i went back to the school, and gave the teacher directions back to my house (though ive long forgotten what my house even looked like and the directions there) i also remember getting told off by my dad :S.
I guess my parents were upset at losing me and releived i came home.

I think the first thing i really wanted to be was a doctor.

Funny thing is that im not 100% sure what i want to be today, but when i was little, i was adamant and confident beyond doubt or question i was going to be a doctor. 😌


Thinking about it now, it might seem like a silly childhood dream comming from the brain of a 20 year old, but i really wish i could have been an explorer, i wished i lived back in the day when the known world was the med, or lived in a future when humans had FTL drives but hadnt explored too far into space, i have an explorers spirit i think, an adventurers soul, ive always had a facination with nature and the world, which is why i guess i was good at geography, biology, things like that, i was always aware of the world around me, and i would always look at a horizon and think "why dont i just walk over there and see whats beyond?"

Sometimes i still find myself doing this, or looking at the stars and wondering what orbits them, what its like in their little corner of the universe.

It got so bad once after i lost a job, i couldnt bring myself to go home so i took a long walk home that suffice to say ended up in the country, i felt this strong urge, nearly tangible, to keep walking west, i always looked west of my house when i was outside it, because thats where inland was, the ciargorm mountains in the distance, the small wooded valleys and little rivers, i love going to the little town where my grandpa lives because its in a small valley just short of the mountains proper, its great, i even remember once thinknig i saw the snow covered cairngorms from the road into the town.
Suffice to say i found the will to drag myself home but i sat at the doorstep for a long time, but thats another story.

So basicly yeah, if my life could be exploring and travelling and just seeing what lays beyond the next hill, just because i can, then i would be in heaven. 😌
 
I Always Dreamed Of A ......

father that loved me more than a bottle of wiskey; cared about me, was proud of me. Never did get it?

Frank

:(
 
Oh poor frankie!!!! 😭 😭 😭 you know i love ya, right? all us people at Jref do! :-) So we got ya, honey! *gives a big ole hug to frankie* 🌹

When i was four i wanted a dad, since my biological one dumped me and my baby sis. And guess what? At seven i got one! The dude my mom was married to adopted us, and since he had been dating my mum since i was a wee lass of 5, i had my wish. He's my daddy through and throug. *Big hug*

Now, i always wanted to be a palientologist, and since i started watching CSI, a forensic dude. Now though, i wanna get into languages. I just love 'em. My folks think i should be a university prof, since they say that's where all the eccentric, crazy people go. (But they say it with all the love in the world! :-)) I've actually been thinkin' bout it to, so i could corrupt all the young people who come into my classroom!! :devilish:

Oh...where was i...:? Oh yeah...I also want to be a big movie star. Right now i'm in a play, and it's improv!!!! Ah! so cool!! :win: I've also wanted to be a spy for the CIA, and a kamikaze kaitou. ☔ Zat's all, folks! 🙏
 
When I was a kid I wanted nothing more than to be an adult. Mission accomplished!
For professions, I wanted to be President of the USA. I loved Reagan as a kid. I remember that famous nuclear bomb commercial in 1980. Ah, Cold War memories, #sniff, sniff#
Then I wanted to be a bassist for a heavy metal band. That died after I joined the drama club in high school, and I lost direction.
 
father that loved me more than a bottle of wiskey; cared about me, was proud of me. Never did get it?
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Thats hard man, you know us Jref lot got your back. :S

apart from the whisky bit i want the same, and its not that he doesnt want to be but, god knows, im not smart enough for university, not strong enough for the army, basicly im doing a less then stellar job of making him proud, i just want my father to like me for who i am, success story or failure, so your by no means alone, it seems a re-occuring theme that those guys with dads always want their fathers to be proud of them.

Ahwell, you turned out alright, if your still in contact with your dad and stuff, you could always try and open a dialogue with him, maybe under all that whisky and stuff, theres a feeling thinknig man that wishes he was a better father, who knows :S.

Anyway i dont know the situation so, i apologise if ive said anythnig wrong. 😌
 
🙂 Yeah, Uncle Frank we all love you 😎 :winklove:
 

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