Has Your Life Turned Out The Way You Thought It Would Be Growing Up?

[Trent]

no

as a child i assumed i would be a lawyer, doctor, or politician

as a teenager i assumed i would die of an overdose or go to prison

as an adult i assumed that people who say they love you, do in fact love you

i've passed all three of those phases

now life is about observation and passing the time

i spend most days wondering if the world will get me before i get myself

 

[Sci-Fi]

Not at all. To be honest when I was in high school I couldn't see myself even graduating. I couldn't see myself going to college, or what the future might hold for me.

 

[Ijustwish]

In a way.

Starting from as young as 4...seemed like life was going to be honeysuckle forever with mistreatment from others...just continued, continued, continued and still continuing but improved because especially in a professional workplace - you can't go around being an ******* or risk losing your job. The thing is, people sometimes hide their meanness to keep their jobs. But strangers in stores etc are still ******** because they got nothing to lose.

Ok...ok...I never had positive thoughts as a child...very low self-esteem because family and my environment supported my negative thoughts...so yes, life has turned out the way I thought. It sucks. I desperately try to hope it gets better but if it weren't for my family, I would have offed myself long time ago and wouldn't be going thru it now sigh...

 

[potato]

This chorus of this song sums it up pretty well for me:
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[Broken_Doll]

Meh, kind of yeah. Except I'm bolder, and naughtier than I was as a kid. But I'm 23 now and not a hell of a lot has changed or happened. I'm pretty much the same kid I was back then.

23 and going on 12, I think I was in too much of a hurry to grow up and be a "grown up". Then suddenly I did grow up, and it bloody sucks aside from having ID and being able to do a few things (but not bloody many) I "wasn't allowed to" back then.

 

[Parabolani]

no

as a child i assumed i would be a lawyer, doctor, or politician

as a teenager i assumed i would die of an overdose or go to prison

as an adult i assumed that people who say they love you, do in fact love you

i've passed all three of those phases

now life is about observation and passing the time

i spend most days wondering if the world will get me before i get myself

^this
except for a long I convinced myself that I was going to build my own porn empire, seriously.

 

[FaeGrl30]

Nope. I wanted to join the Army and then become an FBI Agent as a kid. That never happened. Instead I become a writer, which was my third fall-back choice that I figured I would become in my elderly years, after being an FBI Agent. So, my life didn't turn out the way I planned.

But I had one hell of a journey and experiences during my lifetime. I can't complain too much. ^_^

 

[mawmaw]

well, i always wanted to become an artist. i started to draw when i was 3, my parents always left me alone with crayons and papers. i was a lonely child, but i was enjoying it somehow. my imagination helped me a lot.
now i'm 21, trying to accomplish my biggest dream. and it may never happen, but still i consider myself as an artist and live that way. because that is the only thing that makes me happy and i make art for myself, for expressing my thoughts. Of course i would like to share my art with other people, as a way of communication. I mean art is a powerful weapon for making people empathize with others. and that makes them think... that's why i am working so hard. anyways.
Once when i was 7, we were in Picasso's museum, i look at his sketches and said to my mum: "i can do better than that!"
same day i started to draw people who were in the same tour bus with us and gave them their potraits as a gift.
i still do this kind of childish stuff
i may end up in an office, working for some company, but i'll always be an artist inside.

 

[sassy_gurl2009]

No. I wanted so much more for myself. I used to wanna be a doctor but I'm contentedly settled at my retail job.

 

[Bones]

People/Relationships: No - I believed & trusted in people and got burnt badly by it. (I no longer have it in me to trust anyone.)

Career: No - but, it turned out great considering the circumstances.

 

[EveWasFramed]

I never had any aspirations as a kid. I didn't think much about the future - only making it from one day to the next, keeping my mouth shut and my head down, hoping no one would notice me (my parents).
I can't say that I especially like where I'm at today, or that where I'm at is where I want to be.
Never having had any expectatons for yourself, you'd think someone wouldn't be disappointed at where they ended up. However, that's just not so.

 

[Peaches]

god no!

 

[putter65]

No.

I thought I would find a wife really easily. I thought I would get a great job in computers.

I thought people would see that I was brilliant.

When I got to 18 and slowly saw that people hated me and thought I was a fool it was tought to take.

I still think that now sometimes. Why can't these women see how great I am ?

 

[EveWasFramed]

(no)

 

[mawmaw]

no

as a child i assumed i would be a lawyer, doctor, or politician

as a teenager i assumed i would die of an overdose or go to prison

as an adult i assumed that people who say they love you, do in fact love you

i've passed all three of those phases

now life is about observation and passing the time

i spend most days wondering if the world will get me before i get myself

well said.