Wednesday, January 24, 2007

What do YOU want to be when you grow up?

What do YOU want to be when you grow up?

How many times did we hear that question. And what's the point?

Here's what I think;
10% of us have parents who tell us what we're going to be. No choice involved there.
50% of of don't figure out 'what we want to be when we grow up' until our 30's or 40's.
20% of us never figure it out.
20% actually know what we want, what we love more than anything... since childhood... predestined. Like my brother, who as a 4 year old, would point to airplanes flying overhead & say "that's gonna be me someday!". (Yes, he pilots commercial planes now.)

Me? I'm 41 and I'm still figuring it out. I always said "I can do a little bit of everything" But I was never an expert at anything. More recently I've accepted the fact that I get bored easily. And because I'm a little good at a lot of things, I'm really not so worried anymore about what I'm gonna be when I grow up. I know that, for me, there may not be just one right thing. If I live long enough, I may have the opportunity to be many things. It's like having many lives within one. And it's a good thing.

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