Or was Darkness just blowing smoke?
The dreams of youth are whatever you decide them to be once you get old enough look back on them.
For my part anyway, some of my dreams have been achieved, some haven’t, and others that were the product of my youth have been completely outgrown.
After going through just life, Im don’t even question myself that. I’m like dude, your survived . Period .
Jean-Claude Van Damme had a good line.
He said that when he was 10 years old he decided that he wanted to be a world famous martial arts actor. Now he’s a 50 year old man living a child’s dream.
I admire Madonna, Garth Brooks and Lady Gaga for the same reasons. They all said, “I’m going to do this thing.”, and did it. And they sure aimed high.
I don’t think that’s what’s meant. It’s not that he set out to do a thing and achieved it; it’s that he set out to do what a child dreamed of but now he’s a grown man.
I discovered in my midlife that I had a lot of potential careers I’d be good at, which was completely different than the careers I wanted as a kid.
I really wanted to be an astronaut, and my dad was actually in the space program during and after the Apollo program. But my field independence sucks and I’m prone to motion sickness, so no space travel for me.
On the other hand, I’m awesome at research and connecting seemingly unrelated facts, so I could have been a brilliant CIA analyst. I suck at languages, though, which is a requirement for entry.
I wanted to be a cop, so nah. Dodged a bullet.
I do like working out though, so glad it got me into that at least.
