my own worst enemy

Childhood dreams

Friday, December 21, 2007

I was chatting online with Jism the other day and she said, "I wish I still had my childhood imagination." What ever happened to us that we no longer have great dreams and fantasies (no those kind, sick-o). And for the matter, what ever happened to predictability? The milk-man, the paper-boy, even TV?

Jism's question reminded me of a lecture I watched online earlier this year that I meant to share on my blog. It's entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" and it was given by Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon. he gave it as part of a lecture series titled "Last Lecture" whose theme was "What would you speak about if you could only give one last lecture?" Turns out Randy has terminal cancer and this probably is his last lecture.

You can check it out here: http://cmu.edu/uls/journeys/randy-pausch/index.html. Be warned, it's an hour and half long, but totally worth it. You'll laugh, you'll cry.

So I got to thinking about my childhood dreams, and here's what I could remember:

• Driving a Mustang or other muscle car
  
• Improving the efficiency of solar cells
• Being an astronaut
• Being a veterinarian
• Playing basketball for the University of Louisville
• Owning a large plot of land in Kentucky and keeping it from being developed
• Having a horse farm
  
• Sailing the Mediterranean
• Performing with the Future of Corps
  

To be honest, I'm not doing too shabby on those so far. Some will never come to fruition (astronaut, vet, basketball), but I'm okay with that. There's still a lot of time for the others, and substitutions can be made for some.

What were your childhood dreams? How are you doing so far?

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