Do you have something you have always wanted to do in your life that you consider a “dream”? Something you have a passion and talent for? If so, what is it, when did you figure out that it is what you want to do, and are you pursuing it?
I have worked very hard to pursue my dreams and still am and don’t see myself ever giving up. The sad thing is though, that I have many friends who tell me that they “had” dreams and wish they could still pursue them, but don’t. Some of them have kids and say that is why, but if it’s really something they have a passion for yet don’t pursue, maybe their “dreams” weren’t really dreams afterall?
I want to learn how to play guitar. Eight years of lessons, and I know, in theory, how to make all the chords. I even know some basic finger picking patterns. But, I can’t read music, and I can’t bridge chords because I have really small hands and short fingers, and no matter how hard I try I cannot get MUSIC to come out of my guitar.
I want my real family to find me and acknowledge me for the royalty I am.
OTOH - A big plot of great land with a river running thru it, with horses and chickens dogs and cats and a big garden and a greenhouse and a beach on the other side and a great big timberframe house smack dab in the middle.
I’d like to be a late-1950’s housewife. Well, okay, a late-1950’s style housewife, at least maybe someday. I want to wear black capri pants and cute sweaters and have martinis with my former WWII pilot Atomic Age aerospace engineer husband when he comes home, and have fun parties on the patio with other young optimistic couples, and dance under the paper Chinese lanterns. Or something close to it, anyhow!
I want to compose my own piano piece one day. And one day I will dammit!!! Until then, I continue taking lessons and practicing less than I probably should.
I’d like to build a custom made motorcycle from the ground up; with my own two hands. With any luck this dream will become a reality with in the next couple of years or so.
I’d like to be a published writer. This has been my ambitions since I was four years old, when the Headmistress at school was asking what we wanted to be ‘when we grew up’ and I replied ‘authoress.’ (You see, in the biographies on my favourite Enid Blyton books, it also started out ‘the authoress…’) I am currently about halfway through a full novel, and have several complete short stories and pretty damn good children’s stories. It takes me a very short time to write the first draft, and then forever to pick it apart and bring it to the standards I set myself. I have yet to send anything to any publisher or magazine, but I plan to rectify that soon.
My other dream is to see the Seven Wonders of the Modern World in the year that I turn thirty (four years from now). The plan is to have a huge party on my thirtieth, then pack up my suitcase and my daughter (who’ll be eight by then) and piss off around the world for six months, or however long it takes.
I want to do a complete remake of the game Final Fantasy 6 with whole new graphics and added little bits to the multiple storylines. I’d keep all the music and all the dialogue (although it’d be voice-acted. I already know who I’d cast to do the vast majority of voices, too. I, of course, would voice-act Kefka… :D).
Why limit yourself to only one dream? I have several. I want to be an astronaut. But I can’t apply to the program until I have at least 3 years of professional experience. I want to join doctors without borders or some similar organization. But I haven’t been accepted to med school yet. The list goes on. Of course what I really need to do is spend less time dreaming and more time working to acheive my dreams.
Well, get too it! And uh, mail me a copy would ya?
Anyway:
I’d like the host Conan. Of course I would no longer be called Conan. Plus I’d have to fire Max. He’s to damn smug all the time. jinwicked your welcome to come on whenever you want.
I’d like to be a rock star. Seriously. And, I’m slowly working towards that goal.
I’d also like to build my own house. Haven’t really started on working on that dream, as until I become a rock star I don’t know when I’ll have money to buy property, let alone put a house on it.
Oh, my other dream, which will remain a dream for quite a while, is to have a huge garden with all sorts of different areas in it. A wild section where anything could be growing, formal flowerbeds, a pond (with lily-pads for the frogs), a few fruit trees, a row of pines, one great oak in the centre of the garden that’s great for climbing, morning glories on the fences and roses round the door.
The flowers and trees would be chosen for their scent as much as their look, so that you could walk through the garden blindfolded and know where you just by breathing in. There’d be plenty of flora to attract bees and butterflies and places for birds to nest. In Winter the evergreens and snowdrops would make the garden still a living place.
Oh, I’d also have a gardener. Just to help out, you know.
My dreams are mostly doable… the things I have ‘talent’ for I’m already doing, and boring of…
I want to be a good wife. I want to raise brilliant kids (who will be astronauts and go to Mars) I want to have beautiful gardens. I want to be able to understand what Stephen Hawking does (hah!) I want to be with my SO for the rest of my life. I want to be able to have an orgasm via penetration. I want to have the best physique possible for my body. I want to learn Tai Chi and yoga.
I’ll check back in a few years By that time, I might wanna do two chicks at once.
I ascribe to the “several dreams at once theory.” And, have cleverly figured out how to have all that and a bag of chips! (well, okay, sorta figured it out…)
a) I always wanted to have people come and stay with me. Now that has transmogrified into: I want a Bed&Breakfast.
b) I always wanted a fancy house that I designed and decorated myself, so I could show it off to everybody. Now that has transmogrified into: I want a Bed&Breakfast.
c) I always wanted to have the kind of Christmases you only read about, with the gorgeously decorated home, zillions of kids zooming around on their best behaviour ;), a gorgeous husband, and food to die for. Hmm, sounds like the Cleavers are coming to my B&B for Christmas. (still looking for hubby, tho.)
d) I hate working for other people. I want to be my own boss. can you say, B&B?
e) I want to live in the Summerland region of BC, where tourism is hot, and B&Bs are hotter. I love to can fruit and veggies (not necessarily in the same recipe ) and, well, that’s where to be for canning.
f) I want to write, and to have the time to do it. Okay, this part may be more unrealistic than the rest, but a girl can dream, can’t she?
