A blast from the past...30 dreams

[readingredhead]

I was searching through my word documents for something else entirely when I came across a list that had been typed up for my Success Book in eighth grade health (please tell me some of you remember those?). This was a list of thirty dreams I had for the future. Comparing the ones from then (around the end of eighth grade) and now, some things have changed...but others haven't.

THEN:
1. Publish a science fiction or fantasy novel
2. Learn to speak Latin
3. Meet J.K. Rowling
4. Play on my high school varsity soccer team
5. Have my writing complimented by Anne McCaffrey
6. Be high school valedictorian
7. Invent water-repellant paper
8. Invent electromagnetic hover cars
9. Visit the moon
10. Become a middle school teacher
11. Learn how to skateboard
12. Improve my surfing skills
13. Go snowboarding
14. Go scuba diving with my best friend in Hawaii
15. Attend UC Berkley
16. Win a Nobel Prize in poetry
17. Live in a house near the beach
18. See the pyramids of Giza in Egypt
19. Float in the Dead Sea
20. Understand hyperbolic geometry
21. Never break a bone
22. Co-author a book with my best friend
23. Visit Greece
24. Create a theorem in Euclidean geometry stating that in a proof, whatever comes after “Prove” is true
25. Have my own neighborhood library
26. See the Olympic Games
27. Start a book club with my friend
28. Invent a molecular acceleration transport device (teleporter)
29. Own a jet ski
30. Be positively remembered after I die for making a significant change in the world

NOW:
1. Publish a novel
2. Publish my short story "The Free Way"
3. Publish my short story "Fire and Ice" in some form
4. Publish a novel of Azuria
5. Win a Nobel Prize
6. Meet Julie E. Czerneda
7. Attend Stanford University
8. Work for NASA
9. Be involved with the creation and production of a musical
10. Go to Russia
11. Go to Venice for Carnival
12. Go to the moon
13. Study astronomy & astrophysics
14. Study string theory
15. Study abroad in London
16. Speak at my high school graduation
17. Have at least 13 gavels by the time I graduate
18. Go backpacking somewhere I've never been before
19. Be approached by J. K. Rowling asking me to sign a book for her daughter
20. Win NaNoWriMo a record number of times in a row
21. Work with the United Nations to campaign for peace
22. Never lose touch with all of my good friends
23. Never forget how to smile
24. Become a household name
25. Save the rainforests
26. Save the oceans
27. Save the atmosphere
28. Save our souls
29. Save the world
30. Be positively remembered after I die for changing the world

I pose a question to all of you out there in cyberspace: what does your list look like?

Comments

[cucumber-eyes89.livejournal.com]

Isn't growing up so sad (and beautiful?)

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

You said it.

But rather to grow and learn and change than to always remain the person who you *were* (especially if it meant you'd never know the person that you *are*).

[cucumber-eyes89.livejournal.com]

I love you. You're so amazing. Honestly.

I read Anne of Green Gables last night (to calm myself down from watching "Girl, Interrupted") and missed you.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

You make my heart smile. Honestly.

I've never read the book. Should I?

[spadleader88.livejournal.com]

OMG YES! the whole SERIES is BEAUTIFULLY WONDERFUL!

sorry, got a little carried away.... but GAHHHHHHHH! i have them, somewhere, if you want to borrow! they *scream* "Candace! Read me!"

XDD

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

Well then...I guess I'll be reading them! I might have to borrow those from you sometime.

[cucumber-eyes89.livejournal.com]

-jaw drops- Yes!!! It's you in seventh grade... prolly not, actually, you were probably a lil less talkative than Anne is. But still.

[i-wear-wellies.livejournal.com]

24. Create a theorem in Euclidean geometry stating that in a proof, whatever comes after “Prove” is true

^^this one amuses me.

And I shall come up with a list and post it later :-P

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

Well, it's off of the list because I already did that one. Easier than I thought, really. :p

[bluephoenix8807.livejournal.com]

I made a list like this in seventh grade, only I had to write down 100 goals.

[comment5.livejournal.com]

What on earth would make you want to teach middle school? Why? Why?

I notice that we share some of the same dreams: go to Stanford, get published, etc. But what few people know is that I REALLY want to speak at my graduation. Got a few things to say. Ahem.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

If you get to speak at graduation, you're making a recording of it and sending it to me because I know it'll be that freakin' awesome.

[comment5.livejournal.com]

Ditto.