What do you want to be when you grow up?

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hypochondriac

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Ive never wanted to grow up.
But I might want to write commercials. Dont you love some of the humour in good commercials?
i just saw one on tv here. it was uplifting in its pathos and melodrama.
 

I like that question; it gets funnier & funnier as we get older.
When I was 25, I hung around with a group of friends & we'd tease each other by asking, "Hey, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
 
You know I never ever regretted what I did with my life... But if I really had a choice what I would want to be... I think I might enjoy blowing glass, or a sculpture... or something like that... Weird eh... their's not a crafting thingy in my body now...
 
summer_sky said:
Please do. :)
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Like some of you, I have battled low self-esteem and poor confidence all my life. Oh how I envy those who "believe in themselves." (that sidetracks me actually on another topic in regard to believing in self versus God...anyway)
I was a teacher for about 20 years. I would second guess myself all the time. I must have come across as some nervous neurotic afraid to assert myself. I never got on top of anxiety. I never learnt how to use that anxiety as fuel for success either. As a teacher I would always compare myself to the teacher next door. I would rate myself lowest of the low on the staff. And objectively speaking maybe others put me there too. I had a soft voice. A soft anxious voice. Takng the kids outside for sport my voice would vanish in the wind. I was impotent. Yeah that word makes me laugh too. but that is how I felt all my life as a teacher. Impotent! (wont go into that feeling with my wife :) ) Confidence and power is what I wanted and I never really had it.
I think my integrity was good. I tick a few other boxes. I can be humble and I certianly was in the past , in my younger days.
 
summer_sky said:
Are you still a child at heart while looking to grow up to be a confident adult?
Are you sure it is power that you want?
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Nice question. I think you are hinting that I am actually afraid of the responsibility that comes with being confident. And that Ive never seen myself as an adult. I never had that role in a big family I grew up in. I survived best in my family by keeping a low profile.
So the real problem is conflicting desires. I want the benefits of adulthood whilst keeping the benefits of being a child.
Thanks.
 
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