What were your hopes and dreams as a kid?

[EndlessRage]

It could be anything, feel free to say anything you want to.

As for me, when i was young i always dreamed of joining the army and get to be cool or become a football player.
Unfortunately those dreams remained dreams.

 

[burninghill]

I wanted to be an animator for something big like Disney or Sony.

 

[EndlessRage]

I wanted to be an animator for something big like Disney or Sony.

That's really a unique choice, what got you into wanting to be that?

 

[burninghill]

That's really a unique choice, what got you into wanting to be that?

I was really into indie animators on YouTube and I've always loved film, big nerd about it. I would never be an animator anymore just because the process is hellish, but I still love art. Nowadays I'd be looking more at being a painter or some kind of exhibition organiser.

What interested you about the army and football?

 

[EndlessRage]

I was really into indie animators on YouTube and I've always loved film, big nerd about it. I would never be an animator anymore just because the process is hellish, but I still love art. Nowadays I'd be looking more at being a painter or some kind of exhibition organiser.

What interested you about the army and football?

Oh yeah i am familiar with the 3D stuff it's very hard and requires a lot of skill. I love paintings there are one of the best way you can express something or yourself.

I guess army because i just wanted to fight for something, or have a purpose and football inspired me through many player's stories and how they came to be successful in the sports. I wanted to achieve something similar, i used to play it from night to dawn but i'm skinny and out of shape so these goals are no longer realistic for me.

 

[burninghill]

Oh yeah i am familiar with the 3D stuff it's very hard and requires a lot of skill. I love paintings there are one of the best way you can express something or yourself.

I guess army because i just wanted to fight for something, or have a purpose and football inspired me through many player's stories and how they came to be successful in the sports. I wanted to achieve something similar, i used to play it from night to dawn but i'm skinny and out of shape so these goals are no longer realistic for me.

Honestly I was always really inspired by the guys around me who'd play football. Almost every dude in my school played it so it was perceived as kind of a basic hobby but honestly some of them were so fucking dedicated it was crazy and really impressive.
How come you don't wanna get into it again? You can always get into shape (I make it sound easier than it is but… you know, it's not impossible)

 

[EndlessRage]

Honestly I was always really inspired by the guys around me who'd play football. Almost every dude in my school played it so it was perceived as kind of a basic hobby but honestly some of them were so fucking dedicated it was crazy and really impressive.
How come you don't wanna get into it again? You can always get into shape (I make it sound easier than it is but… you know, it's not impossible)

You're right, i'm just too lazy i might get back into it, might get my head off all the noise. Maybe you should try to paint things too whenever you're worried or stressed something or simply in your free time. Good copes like this are the only things that can keep us going for a while i suppose.

 

[itsgone2]

It's not a great answer but, nothing. Just stating in case there are others. I honestly never felt drawn to anything
It's not a great answer but, nothing. Just stating in case there are others. I honestly never felt drawn to anything

 

[hurts2b]

It's weird. I really don't remember much about my childhood. I think I mostly just wanted out. To be grown up and living somewhere better. I believe as a kid I thought I would be working with animals career wise. But it's all very fuzzy.

 

[Spite]

I had hopes and dreams.

When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up and make a significant contribution to something in the arts. At first I wanted to be a renouned comic book artist, then my dream shifted toward making video games. Over the years, I have also dreamed of being an actor, a voice actor, an animator, and a professional video-editor, like someone who makes music videos or something along those lines.

Sadly, I don't think any of those dreams will ever come true. I have zero connections and I am condemned to working a crappy near minimum wage blue-collar job for the rest of my life.

 

[volo]

I wanted to be a part of a colony on the moon… Ha ha, what dreams…

 

[yui_suicisawa]

my favorite movie is speed racer and it was my childhood dream to be a racecar driver. my parents brought me to karting and i quickly realized that without unlimited bankroll or wealthy sponsorships, it's practically impossible for most people to get into auto sports. you need to be groomed for it by the rich. i also wasn't good at it! i crashed a lot. i ended up preferring racing in fantasy settings like games. i played a lot of f-zero and mario kart wii instead. i got my driver's license at 20, but real life driving just isn't as cool as the movies.

 

[Tesha]

I don't really recall, but I would like to think I wished that I wasn't being abused. Anything else at that age was just wishful thinking.

 

[Sammystink]

It could be anything, feel free to say anything you want to.

As for me, when i was young i always dreamed of joining the army and get to be cool or become a football player.
Unfortunately those dreams remained dreams.

I wanted to work with sea life..
I loved the ocean even as a kid.
All the animals are so beautiful, and working with seals dolphins or sharks...


It feels out of reach now, I live so far from the ocean, I haven't gone through any of the required training.
Idk, at least I know the sea will outlive me!

 

[ireallywasnttogopls]

this is so weird but as a kid i never wanted to grow up

i always planned to commit suicide before adulthood


i had a happy childhood i guess i knew that happiness wouldn't last

 

[EndlessRage]

this is so weird but as a kid i never wanted to grow up

i always planned to commit suicide before adulthood


i had a happy childhood i guess i knew that happiness wouldn't last

What went wrong?

 

[Lapdog6795]

To join airforce or army. Because I was interested in fighter jets and guns. I used to believe in concepts such as country and patriotism.

While growing up, I realised that my body is weak. As an adult, I also came to know that concepts such as country, patriotism, religion are all bullshit powerful people use to control the weak ones. And weak ones choose to believe in them because they're powerless and afraid of death.

 

[Malfunction]

I wanted to be a cop or a fireman. Because I wanted to help people.

It switched to astronaut because I wanted to explore.

I ended up being neither of those, but it was a fun fantasy.

 

[iwkmsssb]

wanted to be a doctor to make my asian parents proud, cliche ik. however growing up i realized i didn't have the potential and i was too stupid to even attempt to go to med school.

 

[flyingangel]

It could be anything, feel free to say anything you want to.

As for me, when i was young i always dreamed of joining the army and get to be cool or become a football player.
Unfortunately those dreams remained dreams.

I wanted to be a scientist, or an artist. Now my dream is to get enough money to simply live without having to work if my suicide doesn't work out. I'm planning to pursue a career in electrical engineering. I heard academia is doing bad, so I'm not gonna be a scientist, and you know the deal with the arts. That said, I am interested in electronics, so it isn't something I'm pursuing for security and money alone

 

[FuneralCry]

Only to peacefully cease existing and never suffer again, I've just never wished for this torturous, futile existence, to exist truly does mean to suffer and it's so terrible how humans impose this existence at all, simply just existing is enough to make me wish for the peace of an eternal sleep, I'll just always see it as the most terrible, dreadful mistake to suffer in this existence.

 

[death over slavery]

Generally, my dream as a kid is what my (neglectful) parents always told me: get a job, have a house, start a family, etc.

Growing up, I wanted to start a business.

Those dreams became.... mere dreams. Now I'm simply content to just have fun with limited resources I have until I die.

 

[Tomorrow Is Today]

Pretty typical, but as a kid I wanted to find love, get a decently enough paying job that could fund my hobbies, and above all, be happy.

Sometimes these things are just not in the cards for us.

 

[shatheman]

I wanted to become a firefighter when i was very young. During my teenage years i wanted to become a soccer player. Right now i am neither of those

 

[empx a0354]

It could be anything, feel free to say anything you want to.

As for me, when i was young i always dreamed of joining the army and get to be cool or become a football player.
Unfortunately those dreams remained dreams.

I wished to be a person remembered forever for some thought or discovery like Newton or Einstein or Socrates. I wanted to be exceptional. I still want to but I feel less and less hopeful

 

[Scythe]

I just want to leave something I can be proud of behind, so that it feels like I left a mark. Something that proves I was here at some point.

I still do and likely will continue to for as long as I live, though that's not very long now.

 

[crossingtheriver]

I wanted to be so many things but what undergirds all of that was my intense desire to make my mother proud. In fact that one thing alone kept me going even though my MH problems and suicidal thoughts started as a teen. And even now I suffer trapped in that guilt about what about my mother after I'm gone.

 

[microwaved_dawg]

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be an engineer, Electronic Engineer just like my father to be more precise. I've always loved tinkering with electronics, repairing things and even making some with arduino and python. People told me I was smart for doing that at an early age, but I just didn't have friends until highschool and that meant a TON of spare time. I've always looked up at my father because he's just so smart and my granpa after retiring picked up the hobby of repairing appliances that broke around the house, sometimes he even broke them himself just to have something to do lol. He also was one of my great inspirations, after passing away I inhereted all his tools, but some ruthless motherfuckers in my family stole nearly all of them just beacuse I didn't have the heart to even touch them.

I should be living the dream right now, studying in the best university in my city (the same one my father studied nearly 30 years ago), yet it just feels so empty now. People there despise me, I've been through 3 friend groups already and in all of them I'm the bad guy. Grades started slipping after the 1st year, failed an entire semester for the first time in my life and got into 2 really damaging relationships (I don't know why I'm just so attracted to mentally ill chicks). Got depressed, meds doing a so-so job.

Sorry for the long story haha, I guess there's just a lot more than a "I wanted to be an engineer".

 

[braingetti]

i wanted to be the pope for some reason according to my mom but i don't remember that

 

[EndlessRage]

To join airforce or army. Because I was interested in fighter jets and guns. I used to believe in concepts such as country and patriotism.

While growing up, I realised that my body is weak. As an adult, I also came to know that concepts such as country, patriotism, religion are all bullshit powerful people use to control the weak ones. And weak ones choose to believe in them because they're powerless and afraid of death.

Ye, same. We all thought we were gonna fight for a noble cause by joining the army, serving the country et cetera but we don't owe any government anything.
They would've just seen us as sheep brainwashed into thinking they aren't sending us to a slaughter to fight their wars but to the so called ''Glory'' and Honor.
It always looked cool on paper but it's just propaganda.

Most of the wars and conflicts that surround us today are driven by a desire for money, oil, power and politics. They are resource wars whoever controls what godforsaken area of an ocean.
The whole concept of wars was much more complex back than driven by a certain ideology or religion. But the only battles worth fighting are for yourself and your loved ones without a doubt.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be an engineer, Electronic Engineer just like my father to be more precise. I've always loved tinkering with electronics, repairing things and even making some with arduino and python. People told me I was smart for doing that at an early age, but I just didn't have friends until highschool and that meant a TON of spare time. I've always looked up at my father because he's just so smart and my granpa after retiring picked up the hobby of repairing appliances that broke around the house, sometimes he even broke them himself just to have something to do lol. He also was one of my great inspirations, after passing away I inhereted all his tools, but some ruthless motherfuckers in my family stole nearly all of them just beacuse I didn't have the heart to even touch them.

I should be living the dream right now, studying in the best university in my city (the same one my father studied nearly 30 years ago), yet it just feels so empty now. People there despise me, I've been through 3 friend groups already and in all of them I'm the bad guy. Grades started slipping after the 1st year, failed an entire semester for the first time in my life and got into 2 really damaging relationships (I don't know why I'm just so attracted to mentally ill chicks). Got depressed, meds doing a so-so job.

Sorry for the long story haha, I guess there's just a lot more than a "I wanted to be an engineer".

That's sad to hear you had potential to achieve that. Don't care about ''Universities'' your talent does not need to be proven by a certificate.
I've always been the punching bag in all the friend groups i have been in to be honest, The only ''good friends'' i had were didn't last long they either moved away to another place.
And i heavily relate to you on the mentally ill chicks part, hahahah. I've had multiple experiences in the past with these kind of women. Most of them have BPD which can lead them to being obsessed with you and they are really deep into bad stuff or sh, it feels nice at first like you got the ''one'' but it is a only matter of time they lose interest in you or cheat on you once they get bored of the attention. They are very needy, the energy needs to keep constantly flowing which isn't optimal in a relationship.

I wanted to be so many things but what undergirds all of that was my intense desire to make my mother proud. In fact that one thing alone kept me going even though my MH problems and suicidal thoughts started as a teen. And even now I suffer trapped in that guilt about what about my mother after I'm gone.

It's very noble to be wanting to make your mother proud and ye, i understand if you're gone it might leave your mother into thinking that she didn't care or look after you or she could've done something to prevent you from doing it. I had a very bad mother, you are very lucky to have a good mother.

Pretty typical, but as a kid I wanted to find love, get a decently enough paying job that could fund my hobbies, and above all, be happy.

Sometimes these things are just not in the cards for us.

Wanting all of these things is normal, it is also a biological instinct to achieve these things. But i guess this is for normal people, we're simply not in control to make these things true.