Dreams/hopes as a kid

[bobpork]

I was wondering if anyone else had any big ambitions in life when they were younger, (or now tho that's unlikely considering where we are lol) and realized that they simply were not good enough to compete at the high levels. I don't want to go into specifics but now I just don't really want to do anything. I don't want kids I don't want a family or anything, i don't understand what's so great about living? What do people enjoy?

 

[ma0]

When I was like 11 I used to be obsessed with the idea of becoming an expert chef working for Gordon Ramsay. I used to watch Hell's Kitchen religiously, and I was a very impressionable little guy. Obviously, I dumped those dreams a year later

When I was like 12/13 though I developed the dream of becoming a successful actor on broadway and stuff. I got inspired by my friends at the time who were a lot more theater obsessed than I was. At the time, I thought I was pretty talented, but after seeing just how cringe and pathetic I was compared to other people, I decided it wasn't worth it. Not like I could ever be that successful anyway.

 

[Cosmophobic]

Paleontologist

 

[The Unanswered Q]

Pretty sure everybody had completely unrealistic goals as a kid. How many people do you think there are that do their childhood dream job? Used to want to be a game designer, but then actually tried programming and realised could never do it xD

 

[QuincyME]

I'm dating myself, but after watching QuincyME with Jack Klugman, I wanted to be a medical examiner. Actually came close in a weird way.

 

[Nightfoot]

I wanted to be another Edgar Allen Poe or Stephen King.

 

[Dejected 55]

I never had a specific dream of a career. I had two conceptual dreams as long and as far back as I can remember:

1. Have a partner. A girlfriend, wife, and ultimately a family of my own.
2. Have enough money that I could live and support my family comfortably AND be wealthy enough beyond that to be able to start a foundation and contribute positively, measurably, to other people's lives and give them opportunities to have good lives.

My wording/phrasing/imaging of those dreams evolved as my language and experience improved... but conceptually, those have always been my two dreams.

#1 has never even come remotely close and is dead in the water now. I could still have #2 if I win the lottery before it comes time for me to go.

 

[Vlad Tepes]

Oh man, I used to daydream around the clock as a kid. As you can imagine, I had all these grand dreams, and in particular, I was always really obsessed with romance, and I daydreamed constantly about having a girlfriend. But even as a kid, I realized that these were mere fantasies and that the cards were simply stacked against me. As I've gotten older, my pessimism has only been confirmed further. I was born to suffer. Nobody will ever love me.

Paleontologist

Nice profile picture, my man.

 

[Monomni]

This probably sounds unbelievable but when I was a kid my dream was to die lmao. When I was 6, I planned out my whole life's trajectory. I was going to get all A's, go to high school, get a minimum wage job, live off of nothing but plain sandwiches to save money, go to college, and once I finished college I waa going to kill myself.

I planned it out this way so nobody could say that I had disappointed them, or hadn't done what I was "supposed" to do. My actual life panned out very differently (I stopped going to school in 6th grade), and the only true goal or ambition I've ever had has been to make others happy. It's not a job, but it's the one thing I've ever wanted.