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When I was 10

I love the Story of the Day. It’s one of the few newsletters that I take the time to open and read on a daily basis.

Today’s was: Things I wanted to do when I was ten

  1. Make a wagon into a restaurant & travel around the world having adventures with my invisible pet dinosaur. Most of the adventures would start with people buying food from us
  2. Light things on fire to see how they would burn
  3. Dig an underground fort & live there except at mealtime & at night because I hate dirt in my food & my pajamas
  4. Discover a continent or an island & not tell my parents where it was because they’d just make me clean it

My list of things I wanted to do when I was ten:

  1. Have a pony and never have to muck the stall (totally original)
  2. Become the first woman President of the United States (again, totally original)
  3. Kick butt like She-ra, Princess of Power (I like to think I sorta do this today, haha)
  4. Live forever in the fort I made in our living room (yea, that didn’t last long)
  5. After ditching the fort idea, live underwater like the mermaids (yea, that didn’t pan out either)

While both lists are a little silly, what happened to the wild imaginations we had when we were kids? As adults, we automatically and immediately put up road blocks to things that we think are “impossible.” But, are they really impossible or is it fear that’s stopping us from dreaming big, “ridiculous” dreams like we did when we were kids?

Posted by Vegasbab on July 17th, 2008 Posted in Fun, Personal

2 Comments

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