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I always wanted to be a circus ringmaster, but I never had a good enough reason to run away from home and join the circus so it never came to be...

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I wanted produce a marvelous movie.I did at the age of 16 produce one for my mothers birthday.She is a sculptor and a ferry tale personna.Of course she loved it and thinks I am genius... My imagination has the scripts for the messages and entertainment much needed in today's time and with the wisdom I maybe could deliver a masterpiece.Ok a bit too humble.The big but is the financial part. I understood the roughness&thoughness of business but never really was attracted for that struggle.So an awake dream life has made that part very difficult despite some peaks so now I have too face a reality were beauty is still omnipresent but limitations to realise a few more dreams.

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I'm a good mom and stepmom so far, which I think she'd appreciate. I used to interview myself in my bedroom mirror for being a bestselling author. It hasn't happened yet, but it totally will. I'm grateful my dream didn't have a time/age restriction on it. Of course it would have fed my ego nicely to be a "best something or other under 30" but I've apparently opted for late bloomer over ingenue. My eight-year-old self probably would have been more impressed if writing success came before baby-making, but I'm so grateful I had a child -- the only thing I dreamed of that does have a time/age restriction.

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I always wanted to be Dr Doolittle and own a pushmepullyou..so I've come as darn close as I could..I've been running the same Vet Clinic for 28 years, and my little white dog pushesmeandpullsme everywhere in life

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No, it wasn't in the cards but what my life has been one big adventure with much test and difficulties

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My eight year old must be kicking my a*s because after many years I got what I always wanted and realised very quickly it wasn't for me so now it's a question of discovering what I really want. My eight yeare old could have been wrong all along so he might want to stop kicking and join me for an icecream and we can put our heads together, see if we can't come up with a wonderful new alternative.

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I would have to say that I have despite not being where I want to be that I have become what I dreamed of being as a kid.

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when i was little i wanted to be a fairy.. so i became a ballerina. the only thing i knew then, was that i have to be always surrounded by art.. music and acting.. now i got my own tv show about music!!! so i think that i can made it, i feel blessed and happy

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I never became a ballerina with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden but, now in my sixties, I still have the red toe shoes I wore and then had to hang up when in my teens. Could never bring myself to toss them out...

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I once thought it would be cool to be a jet fighter pilot... Until the Viet Nam war, when I realized those guys were dropping napalm on villages.

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I still haven't been proclaimed a samurai or dubbed a knight, -yet-.

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I had a favorite aunt who taught school. I thought that was the best thing ever, since she was so kind, so loving, so generous. Halfway through college I married my childhood sweetheart who was then drafted to fight in Vietnam. Military pay does not provide for college tuition! We had a baby, then another one. His civilian job took us to another state, but eventually, when my children were in elementary and middle school, I stepped back into study. It took some doing, but I made it. I loved being a teacher, and now I'm retired, but I'm still learning and passing it on.

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She's still working on me. http://chimerablues.squarespace.com/the-beginning/2008/10/9/i-am-nothing-special.html" target="_blank">http://chimerablues.squarespace.com/the-beginning/2008/10/9/i-am-nothing-special.html

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Luckily, that 8 year old kid would probably love me just as I am....I've just always kinda been that way...non judgmental....I dreamed of being an astronomer when I was 8...and then a few years later changed that to Singer/Songwriter....Today I am neither of those things, but they are still a part of who I am......I studied aspects of astronomy...so I got that fix...and I wrote songs and sang for years....and now I sing in the car and for an occasional wedding or nite out Karaoke with friends...ha....music and sound are still a huge part of my life...I guess the answer to this question, is I dream new dreams pretty regularly and move onto to new adventures and it more than pays the bills! : )

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I'm neither a baseball player (in the summer), nor a comedian (in the winter), so no, I did not.

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Yes my Dad made me a school cubby house and I would invite the neighbourhood kids over and give them lessons. I am a teacher but am known as a travelling teacher as I have to leave my family and do teaching contracts further afield as there is not enough work in our area. You can't have everything if you want to follow your dream.

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I think I wanted to be a farmer and a mermaid. However, I was always the "good drawer" from a very young age and now I am still an artist. I married a talented musician and I'm a stay at home mom who bartends at a rock club in the evenings. I reckon my child self might just approve.

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no, and yes. i'm not a movie director and i can't throw down a slam dunk, but i am still striving for the things that give me tingles.

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not at all, but that doesn't bother me. I think I can be more than my scrawny 7-year old self dreamed to be.

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This question have been posted about a million times on SP, which begs the question, why is this question so often asked? I personally don't have a goal-oriented view of life so it wouldn't occur to me to ask it. What differentiates me from goal-oriented people?

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Did you become what you dreamed of being as a little kid?

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I always wanted to be a circus ringmaster, but I never had a good enough reason to run away from home and join the circus so it never came to be...

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Jessicarae

LunaJune

I always wanted to be Dr Doolittle and own a pushmepullyou..so I've come as darn close as I could..I've been running the same Vet Clinic for 28 years, and my little white dog pushesmeandpullsme everywhere in life

chicklets2040

No, it wasn't in the cards but what my life has been one big adventure with much test and difficulties

Dali

drpski1

I would have to say that I have despite not being where I want to be that I have become what I dreamed of being as a kid.

joy

when i was little i wanted to be a fairy.. so i became a ballerina. the only thing i knew then, was that i have to be always surrounded by art.. music and acting.. now i got my own tv show about music!!! so i think that i can made it, i feel blessed and happy

7valleys

I never became a ballerina with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden but, now in my sixties, I still have the red toe shoes I wore and then had to hang up when in my teens. Could never bring myself to toss them out...

JohnnyD

I once thought it would be cool to be a jet fighter pilot... Until the Viet Nam war, when I realized those guys were dropping napalm on villages.

SamuraiTsumo

I still haven't been proclaimed a samurai or dubbed a knight, -yet-.

Laark

tjay

She's still working on me. http://chimerablues.squarespace.com/the-beginning/2008/10/9/i-am-nothing-special.html" target="_blank">http://chimerablues.squarespace.com/the-beginning/2008/10/9/i-am-nothing-special.html

daynagail

LODOW

I'm neither a baseball player (in the summer), nor a comedian (in the winter), so no, I did not.

mhusayni

xailastorms

I think I wanted to be a farmer and a mermaid. However, I was always the "good drawer" from a very young age and now I am still an artist. I married a talented musician and I'm a stay at home mom who bartends at a rock club in the evenings. I reckon my child self might just approve.

pancaker

no, and yes. i'm not a movie director and i can't throw down a slam dunk, but i am still striving for the things that give me tingles.

ElementryPnguin

not at all, but that doesn't bother me. I think I can be more than my scrawny 7-year old self dreamed to be.

zamfir

This question have been posted about a million times on SP, which begs the question, why is this question so often asked? I personally don't have a goal-oriented view of life so it wouldn't occur to me to ask it. What differentiates me from goal-oriented people?

Did you become what you dreamed of being as a little kid?

I always wanted to be a circus ringmaster, but I never had a good enough reason to run away from home and join the circus so it never came to be...

I always wanted to be Dr Doolittle and own a pushmepullyou..so I've come as darn close as I could..I've been running the same Vet Clinic for 28 years, and my little white dog pushesmeandpullsme everywhere in life

No, it wasn't in the cards but what my life has been one big adventure with much test and difficulties

I would have to say that I have despite not being where I want to be that I have become what I dreamed of being as a kid.

when i was little i wanted to be a fairy.. so i became a ballerina. the only thing i knew then, was that i have to be always surrounded by art.. music and acting.. now i got my own tv show about music!!! so i think that i can made it, i feel blessed and happy

I never became a ballerina with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden but, now in my sixties, I still have the red toe shoes I wore and then had to hang up when in my teens. Could never bring myself to toss them out...

I once thought it would be cool to be a jet fighter pilot... Until the Viet Nam war, when I realized those guys were dropping napalm on villages.

I still haven't been proclaimed a samurai or dubbed a knight, -yet-.

She's still working on me. http://chimerablues.squarespace.com/the-beginning/2008/10/9/i-am-nothing-special.html" target="_blank">http://chimerablues.squarespace.com/the-beginning/2008/10/9/i-am-nothing-special.html

I'm neither a baseball player (in the summer), nor a comedian (in the winter), so no, I did not.

I think I wanted to be a farmer and a mermaid. However, I was always the "good drawer" from a very young age and now I am still an artist. I married a talented musician and I'm a stay at home mom who bartends at a rock club in the evenings. I reckon my child self might just approve.

no, and yes. i'm not a movie director and i can't throw down a slam dunk, but i am still striving for the things that give me tingles.

not at all, but that doesn't bother me. I think I can be more than my scrawny 7-year old self dreamed to be.

This question have been posted about a million times on SP, which begs the question, why is this question so often asked? I personally don't have a goal-oriented view of life so it wouldn't occur to me to ask it. What differentiates me from goal-oriented people?

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