What are some personal dreams youve given up on? VOL.....JASON WATERFALLS

NazDrowie said:
break dancing...im bad to ok at popping and locking, but the acrobatic stuff was always too hard for me...

i think i was too heavy because i remember all the thin, wirery folks could flare, windmill, and flip with the best of them...
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Same here :lol:.. I'm 6'2 275 and can pop lock like a Mf but floor moves was hard as ****
 
-I wanted to be a doctor when I was younger. Volunteered in hospitals when I was a teen etc. I kinda got scared off when I saw the amount of schooling that it would take. Funny thing is is that I probably would've been done it or almost finished by now if I would've followed through

- I wanted to be an adequate to good pianist. Dropped off that after a few years. I can still go back just have to find the motivation

My dream to be a novelist/ screenwriter/ comic book writer is still on the table. I just need to find motivation in life
 
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Mark Antony said:
I think I'm over the big metro area life. Probably move back to a low key city where the famb is and start a business. Gonna keep stacking till I figure out what.
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Brolic Scholar said:
Bruh.
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Funny y'all are both saying this. Me and my gf just decided we're stacking for 2 years and leaving San Diego. Cost of living is ridiculous and we're boring home bodies now. About the only thing we take advantage of is the beach. I wanns live where there are trees, rain and a decent fall and winter. I'm thinking Washington state or Oregon 
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Once you get to a certain age you start to think much more practical.  I just left my over priced traffic ridden place for the outskirts myself, and it feels good.  Not really any traffic, and no lines unless your at Walmart.  Life just feels easier

And at this stage in my life all I want is easy and practical.

I'm even thinking about growing my beard out and becoming a truck driver; and start saying **** like "You All", and "Y'all". 

Driving(racing) has actually been one of those dreams that I gave up on, and having enough land to build a concrete and dirt race track behind my house.  Really thinking about being an owner operator trucker I hear it's good money in it, so who knows I might just be able to make my dream a realty in the near future if I treat my money right.
 
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Fire Fighting


tried 2 times.

1st time got distracting trying to make more money in a different profession

2nd time is just too embarrasing to tell.


i want there to be a third time and i actually make it but theres always that voice in my head, "no matter how hard i try, they wont select me, so why try?"
 
blkrstr21 said:
ive never given up on any dreams per se, just have changed them along the way

like after high school, i really wanted to be a fire fighter, but went into welding instead because i love working with my hands. after getting certified as a welder, i decided to finish out my BAS in industrial manufacturing, which led to a job in agriculture. i loved my job at first, but then they stuck me behind a desk so i quit. So now im going back to school to be a firefighter in January

And thats basically how all my personal dreams have gone. Ive accomplished a lot of them but just not really in the way I had planned. But I guess thats the point of life, right?
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how old are you?
 
I wanted to be the only person in my family that was 6'0 tall...I was stuck at 5'11 since my Jr. Year. 

Atleast I played ball and in HS and was able to dunk once or twice...

Majority of the time, I was getting dunked on by DeMarcus Nelson 
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Current dreams I'm working on-
-Become a musician, with a great country voice but a blues guitar skillset that will make you cry with one note. Just got my own electric guitar (played acoustic for 7 years) and am practicing my blues now.
-Go to Berklee College of Music, majoring in guitar.

Dreams on "back order", on hold for right now-
-Become a competitive COD player.. hard to find teams / teammates to play with, and hard to find time. I tried playing as much as I needed to, and as I got good enough to hang I found that finding a team to dedicate the same level of professionalism to the craft is hard. My girlfriend also accused me of "not balancing my life with gaming", aka I wasn't spending enough time with her.
-Stream COD, possibly Vlog on YouTube. Expensive, and I don't have a computer that can handle this currently.

Dreams abandoned-
-Go to Le Cordon Bleu, cooking school. Realized it wasn't what I wanted to do, although I love food. There isn't any real money in the fields outside of it.
 
imthekang said:
Fire Fighting


tried 2 times.

1st time got distracting trying to make more money in a different profession

2nd time is just too embarrasing to tell.


i want there to be a third time and i actually make it but theres always that voice in my head, "no matter how hard i try, they wont select me, so why try?"
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Just lots of pipe dreams growing up.

Wanted to be an NBA player but I'm 5'10 and trash with zero athleticism.

Wanted to be a police officer when I was younger but got caught up and messed my record. Happened while I was going thru the initial process.

Lottery winner. - wanted to be a lotto winner and played religiously but I gave up.

Then I wanted to be an underground rapper but I suck have no skills, a speech impediment and I have zero creativity or writing skills.

Then I wanted to be a computer hacker and work on computer skills but I suck and don't have skills .

When you young you think the sky's the limit and you different or special then reality hits and you realize you just a peasant like everyone else. Ordinary Joe.
 
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Crazy how many wanted to become Firemen.
Ive been one for 10 years and I feel I'm no where near tapping my full intellectual potential doing this job.

Im actually growing out of this line of work
Ive been through alot of situations and done some courageous things but Im still pursuing my purpose in life.
 
Basketball dudes

When did you realize you weren't going to make the NBA?

What happened? Who did you play against that made you realize that? Who did you see play. What did you read, etc......
 
I wanted to own a kar dealership when i was younger. Felt if i kould sell drugs, kars would be easy :lol: I still feel i kan do that, but now my goal is to open a shady *** tow kompany. Now i kan sell kars peoples kars back to em :lol:
 
DCAllAmerican said:
Basketball dudes

When did you realize you weren't going to make the NBA?

What happened? Who did you play against that made you realize that? Who did you see play. What did you read, etc......
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There wasn't really one particular person, just how I weighed up against the competition at pe. And also when I didn't make the team in middle school.

I was always had jaw dropping handles/quickness because I practiced dribbling constantly, but I'm undersized never became a good shooter. I had a goal in the front yard for a bit second, but dudes messed it up by dunking on it. I wish I would've thought to put it in the back yard so I could practice shooting.
 
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DCAllAmerican said:
 
Basketball dudes

When did you realize you weren't going to make the NBA?

What happened? Who did you play against that made you realize that? Who did you see play. What did you read, etc......
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I realized I wasn't going to go anywhere with Basketball when I played ball for a community college. 

High School was my peak and that was it.

A part of me still wonders if I should have stayed with baseball or even football. But, it's over with. Time to move on.
 
Ah man this one hurts me.

I wanted to play professional baseball, since i was a kid, my parents would put me in all kinds of leagues, I was a pitcher and a good one, have medals all around the house, till around 14 years old i was in a game, a playoff one at that, a line drive straight to my leg, shattered it :smh: . I was able to heel fast but it scarred me for life never wanting to play baseball. So I turned to Basketball but by then it was too late to get noticed and all that stuff.

Wish i can go back and maybe do things different.
 
I've been living one of my personal dreams for the past 3 months and have never been happier in my life.

The only problem is that my parents, who have been the biggest support through my whole life, have no idea. I'd love to share my happiness with them and tell them all about it but I haven't found the right way to break it to them yet.
 
Hennessy said:
I've been living one of my personal dreams for the past 3 months and have never been happier in my life.

The only problem is that my parents, who have been the biggest support through my whole life, have no idea. I'd love to share my happiness with them and tell them all about it but I haven't found the right way to break it to them yet.
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