You Were A Child

Yesterday, being the nervous wreck I am about the future, I decided to look up grad schools...even though I have yet to even start my third semester at the University. I just have that anxiety, which I imagine most people my age have. That anxiety where you do not know whether your plans will really work out and you find that you might be a failure. The time has come where if you say that you are a college graduate, it does not mean shit. You need the extra spice, the numerous contacts, the secrets, the well...everything. Maybe I am reading way too in my future...or maybe I am in the right state of mind, considering that in this world, there is no room for slowing down; what a sad fact.

Anyway, so I was looking for graduate schools and I found that you have to know foreign languages...does this mean I should take some languages in undergrad? I mean I guess I have Spanish in the bag, but the descriptions made it seem as if I need to know more than one...well, whatever I guess I will worry about it later.

So, all this talk about the future took me to the good 'ol days when kids used to say the priceless line, "When I grow up I want to be..." I was reminded of this during a conversation with my mother. It goes a little something like this:

Me: When I grow up, I want a boat.
Mom: *Gives weird look* When you grow up?
Me (to myself): I can still say that right? I mean I'm technically not a grown up.

I tried to think of what I said when I was little in response to what I wanted to be when I grow up.

1. A gymnast

• I am so far from that career right now, it is not even funny. Actually its hilarious. Anyway I remember always wanting to be one, but never being enrolled into a gymnastics class as a child. Also that was a silly dream, I think I read too deep into the Olympics.

2. A figure skater

• Also far from this dream and terribly clumsy on ice.

3. A singer

• Now this is something I could possibly see happening. I mean now and days you just upload a couple of vids to YouTube and you are set. Justin Bieber anyone?

Other than those three, I really cannot remember the others. Now its your turn...when you were little, what did you want to be?

Also a little reminder of what the future can hold for us: