WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE..

[MKR]

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Louise dear, you can still write the book. You are such an eloquent writer and so thought provoking in all that you put down on paper!! Never too late!! I know publishers!

You are right, I often wondered if we could have the dreams of our youth, as I had higher aspirations than I did a way to pay for them. I always told myself I would tell my daughter, she could be ANYTHING she wanted to be, even an astronaut, it was there for her taking! Well, I never had the daughter and I am pretty sure after the diaper wearing crazed astronaut lady here in the US, I may not use that as an example for my grandaughters!

XOXO, Mary

[dilayne]

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I'm actually very optimistic about fulfilling dreams later in life...the kids are grown, other things are settling down..I feel like for the first time in my life that I'll be able to dedicate and devote unsplintered time to whatever I choose to do...heck, after raising three kids, being married twice, working full time all of the time, I can do anything! And, now, I can do it without having to do a million things...

I loved the movie 'Under the Tuscan Sky' for the simple message that it may look a little different from what we imagined in our youth, the form may change..but we can fulfill our dreams, and actually, I bet many of us already are and don't even realize it yet..maybe you wanted to be a vet...but instead, you love and care for your precious pets?

Also, when I was younger, I thought I had to accomplish a lot of things, but now I realize that that was a burden that I gladly give it now..that what I'm doing is enough, that planting my garden is enough, making love to my husband is enough, playing with my grandkids and talking to my daughters at the kitchen table..

Louise, I totally agree with Mary...they say women have burst of creativity later in life..I'm counting on it myself!!!

OK, I'm digressing...sorry ladies (and gents)...
:0)

[Bookish]

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Not to get off topic, but

Hi D. I do believe you now have another accomplishment to add to your list. 1000!

[Beaches]

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I wanted to be a nurse. I am not a nurse. I ended up going into Human Services. While in college I took a couple of Chemistry classes and with a lot of tutoring I ended up with a C. Not good. Science and I don't get along very well.

[chrysa]

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I am finding this thread very therapeutic. Thx once again Irish. dilayne, both your replys are, well, Wow. I mean I am going to reread and seriously ponder what you said.

Mar, Louise, MKR. Simey....you have a point. I remember now I was encouraged to get some higher education, but I was suppose to be a lab technician. At 17 growing up in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania , I guess I thought that was fine. My mother sometimes said she regretted that I went to Boston & got educated. It certainly did distance me even more from my parents whom I had trouble with anyway.

Lauralynn..a fellow geek...hi!! Not saying I loved my default career in IT, but I got to become kind of a geek!

Determinator...you need help!!! ;>) LOL

[irishlady]

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You know chrysa, something you said there made me think... Neither of my parents were well educated, although my father was very intelligent, I wonder now if perhaps they were afraid of education or knowledge, thinking that if I did go to college I would be off with never a backward glance.. I know my mother looked upon school as somewhere for us to go to during the day to keep us out of trouble, and not as a springboard for a successful life... I know she had an unhappy childhood, I wonder now if she was projecting her own fears of schooling onto me... This thread IS going deep...

[Beaches]

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I used to wonder what my parents thought about what I ended up doing with my life...working with adults and children with developmental disabilites. He has a phD and my mother was a teacher, now retired. His sister also a phD in psychology.
I felt like an underachiever for a long time. I always said "well I guess I didn't get the brains in the family".
Well we have come full circle. I have a child who has autism and my father is now part of a big organization (president) that raises money for people who have developmental disabilities.
Isn't it interesting. I certainly don't make the money I would like too but I am very happy in my job. Can't imagine doing anything else.

[irishlady]

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You said it Beaches, you don't have the money, but you're happy in your job... Thats the way I would have it as well..

[sammys]

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Hey Irish I am thinking about your post, its got my emotions and brain going. I think this is something you feel, like you have missed something along lifes way. I sometimes am asked why I have no children, and sometimes I am asked why I am in the business I am in.

Still thinking??
Sammys

[Elizabeth]

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Hey Rags, How did you know that I'm a Nikon fan? For I truely am.

Not into Canons though...sorry! Would love to see some of your photos some time. Is'nt wildlife photography the greatest. I'm kinda into landscape photography in a big way becos so many people do close up wildlife and it all gets a bit repeditive after awhile and the light and landscape here opens a thousand possibilities especially when combined with wildlife as part of the composition. Must be the same in Australia.

I was beginning to think I was missplaced here becos people either think I talk as if I come from somewhere special (which I do) or that I think I'm someone special, which I unfortunately dont!

The great thing about your digital is that you can take great shots and create/print them without a dark room (though I have to admit I remember my days in the darkroom creating, with great fondness. Was'nt it something!). Photography is a bit like giving birth ... you develope it paintakingly, nuture it til its ready to show the world and then sweat over it till its something magical. I'm sure most mothers would disagree with me but its all in the eyes of the beholder.

As for buying another Nikon!!! Kinda working towards the DX. Need a sugar Daddy with lots of money to buy every lens I dream of including a fish eye and under water casing! Keep clicking.

[Elizabeth]

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Hey Tawny, if I ever fullfill my dream of forming a wildlife sanctuary in my homeland Kenya (live in neighbouring Tanzania right now) I'm going to give you a call.XXX

[Elizabeth]

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Hey Well Seasoned hold onto that writing idea. Creating something through your pen is one of the most beautiful experiences of life. Along with photography, writing has given me the most pleasure and freedom I have ever experienced in this life.

God I must sound like a bore. This thread is too close to my heart..... you guys are going to get sick of my comments! Understandably.

[Beaches]

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Never. Elizabeth, I enjoy hearing what you have to say. Kenya...wow that must be amazing.

[chrysa]

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You got me thinking too dear Irish..

irishDear?that sounds very feasible that your parents felt that way. Unfortunately I think it is helpful to figure out our parents? childhood, as well as, our own. There are things I still do not understand about my (Irish) father's emotional abuse to me and I am pretty sure it had to do with his own childhood. Wish I knew..because as a child it is soOO hard to understand why a parent would do certain things.

Beaches? I am so happy for you, ending up doing what obviously was meant to be!! You are blessed!! Revel in that! Its great!

Sammys?even your avatar gives you away as the thinker..what business are you in?? I know I am late on the boards to know this?please let me know what you continue to think!!!!

Elizabeth?I would love to know more about you. I have recently gotten into nature photography. I absolutely love it. Wildlife would be over the top for me! Africa has always held incredible fascination for me...funny in that it is has more of an attraction for me than for my husband who is African-American. But my best friend lives in Cairo..so perhaps I will get there one day.

Sorry that I have gone on so...therapeutic as one says

[julie001]

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I wanted to be a writer. Now that I'm in my 40's, am raising my two kids, and have been teaching adolescents for the last 20 years, I'm dreaming of what I'd like to be for the rest of my life...I'm not sure what yet, but it has to have something to do with plants and flowers. That sounds so peaceful.

Julie