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27/11/2007 @ 08:48 roze said:

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I was having a drink with a friend the other night. We both come from a similar part of the world - and i asked her whether as a child she would have imagined that she would be where she is now. I am so not. I figured i would be something like a teacher and married with loads of kids and a house in the country. My life is very different from that - and it continues to surprise me!
27/11/2007 @ 09:18 younger said:

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Absolutely bloody not - oops, OK - stressful day. Perhaps had I known, I would have NOT worked so hard at school....
27/11/2007 @ 11:13 Marmite said:

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I remember being 17 and thinking as long as I made it to the year 2000 I'd have done pretty well. As for what I am/do, I don't think I ever even imagined the future as a child. I do now though, and that country home with log fires and dogs and children is firmly in my sights.
27/11/2007 @ 13:30 thorn said:

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My life has not turned out the way I thought it would.
My life has been more exciting and exilharating than I could have imagined.
I'm glad my life is what it is and not what I imagined it would be like.
27/11/2007 @ 16:21 ChocolateCake said:

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mine is not the life I wanted for myself, it's not awful, it has a lot of joby but it's following my family pattern which resolutely thought I had a choice to avoid. Fate or circumstances or something (my conditioning? learnt behaviour??), keeps conspiring to keep me on this particular path.
27/11/2007 @ 17:42 Wolfie said:

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I am with Thorn - how lucky I have been...
Although, when I was a kid I vowed that when I owned my own car, I would get in it and just drive ... I don't do that..... I should sometimes .... I love driving ....
27/11/2007 @ 20:47 bill said:

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imagining anything as a child was not easy for me. I could not imagine a day when my father would see me rather than sit in his chair staring at his hans. So yes my life - warts and all - has far exceeded what i believed possible. and that is not saying very much at all!
27/11/2007 @ 20:55 thorn said:

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I love to drive too BigWhiteWolf. Sometimes my friend and I will get in the car, crank the music and drive somewhere, usually without a destination. We open the moon roof in the summer and let the wind blow through the car and sing at the top of our lungs. She has a beautiful voice - me, not so much. When it gets dark and we head back home we turn off the music and have long heart to heart chats.
It took me 40 years, but driving to 'nowhere' is one of the most enjoyable things I do.
27/11/2007 @ 21:11 Wolfie said:

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Ah Thorn, now that sounds like serious driving - OK within the next six months I am going to do that ....
27/11/2007 @ 21:47 constantine said:

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I love to drive too! There's nothing better than getting behind the wheel with a good CD and just driving.

I am not where I thought I would be. I thought I would be much more successful in my career than what I am. It's ok though. I'm doing alright.
28/11/2007 @ 09:41 SwimUpstream said:

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Me too constadine - but I think I had a different idea of what sucess was back then too... I wanted to make lots of money so I would be admired by my father, now I just want to be happy and make the people around me happy. I like my job - but it doesn't define me in the way i thought it would..
28/11/2007 @ 10:50 Swon said:

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I never thought much about material things when I was young, I just wanted to become a marine biologist. So, to that end I turned down grammer school in favour of a comprehensive ( a very very good one ) which I then dropped out of age 15 with no qualifications. Had a few assorted jobs until age 19 when I got into computers (yes, with no qualifications ) and that's where I am now; 39 years later, don't suppose I'll move now. On the plus side of life, my yougest son graduated this year with a degree in wildlife conservation so hopefully he'll succeed where his old man got it all wrong. As for driving, I hate it on a daily basis as I have 60 mile round trip to work. But on holiday in Scotland this year it was great to drive through breathtaking scenery and not see another car for miles and miles and miles (apart from Edinburgh which is just as congested as London).
28/11/2007 @ 18:59 savmut said:

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hmm, well I didn't become what I wanted to as a child, but I think I am doing alright. I was lucky in finding something I love to do when I was still in school (computers), it changed what I wanted to become, but it all worked out okay. I now have a job that I love, and I work with people I enjoy being around. As a bonus, I only drive when I want to, as I get to work from home 100% of the time. I only go in the office when I feel like it, and my boss has told me I can go anywhere in the world, as long as I have an internet connection she will let me work from there. I am thinking a trip overseas is in my future. :)
28/11/2007 @ 20:01 ablely said:

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When I was a child I dreamt that I would get married and have babies. I did. Hmmmm.
29/11/2007 @ 13:45 yaroo said:

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I was going pretty well for a while and she would have been proud of me... after college i got a good job and started a career. when i had kids i stopped working for a while and now i am finding it very difficult to get back in the workplace. Why don't people want moms with kids? I didn't imagine it would be like that.
30/11/2007 @ 23:25 dorisday said:

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When i was a kid i spent a lot of time looking at the ocean - and just wanting to leave - not sure what and not sure where. Now i have worked all over the world - mainly in war and trouble zones - and these days i am glad to be back home for a while. Sometimes i think i saw far more than i ever planned for - and some of it is very hard to forget.
03/12/2007 @ 02:25 Kthulu said:

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Just spotted this one and thought I'd add to it. I certainly have not become the person I had thought I would be as a child, I think I turned out better. I did do many of the things that I wanted to and found out they really weren't all they were cracked up to be. Outside of that I have achieved almost all of my childhood dreams and created new ones to strive for.
03/12/2007 @ 08:18 x1y2z3 said:

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when i was a kid i thought that grown ups didn't have problems really. that they were so grown up that they could sort things out. so no, i am not what i thought i would be when i was a child. i wish i could be.
03/12/2007 @ 08:56 luvmyguy said:

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Yes, my life has pretty much turned out the way I envisioned, I'm a lawyer, happily married, with children (I even envisioned 2 girls and that's what I have!!). The only thing I didn't think I'd ever do that I am doing now is be a stay-at-home-mom. For some stupid reason when I was younger I thought that would be weak and that I would never quit practicing and climbing that ladder. But with the kids so small still, I can't see it happening any other way and me being happy at the same time. Being with them is so much more satisfying and challenging than working at a "real job" ever was (at least today, on a good day. heh).

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