welcome to the future

do you ever think about what you thought your life was going to be like when you were a little kid?  i remember being in third or fourth grade thinking about what i wanted to be when i grew up, something that most children do.  i wanted to be a nurse because i thought that men were doctors and women were nurses, both being equivalent.  then once i hit fifth or sixth grade, all anyone could talk about was high school, turning sixteen, and getting your dream car.  i remember thinking that i wanted a lime green volkswagen beetle, and i always pictured myself driving around and blaring "i'm real" by j. lo and ja rule over and over everywhere i went.  at this time, i was playing four sports and of course i saw myself playing each sport in college and then naturally making it to the respective professional leagues upon completion of college.  then, once i finally got to high school, i started thinking more realistically.  i picked out a 1995 bmw for my first car, but it turned out to be a death trap so we sold that and i got a volkswagen jetta, in the same family as my original dream car.  i also started thinking more seriously about my future career and took up and interest in chemistry and wanted to be a pharmacist, that is until i took ap chemistry my senior year and found out that chemistry become a tad bit tougher than i was used to in the introductory course i had taken my sophomore year.  right about the same time that i realized chemistry wasn't for me it was time to start filling out college applications.  then i really started thinking about my career and what i wanted to do with the rest of my life.  i got one thing right when i was dreaming about my future back in middle school; i'm playing volleyball in college, but i'm more realistic about my hopes of going to play professionally because it is not a very reliable career path.  instead i decided that business was the route for me, accounting in particular but i was still curious about other things that i could possibly take and that's how i came to my double major with advertising.  i just think it is really interesting how some of your childhood dreams stay with you throughout life, although they made be altered just a little bit, and some you quickly outgrow. it'll be even more interesting to see which dreams continue into the next phase of my life.