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Kids these days want to be Batman, Spider-man, or Superman..
and I blame parents.
If they were better parents their kids wouldn't want to be orphans.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be Abraham Lincoln. I think that says something about my later obsession with US history...
WHen I was a kid I just wanted to be a robot. Or a dinosaur. But not a robot-dinosaur, that would just be silly.
When I was a kid I wanted to be a knight.
I also wanted to be a writer. And still do, incidentally. I used to write really bad Goosebumps and Choose Your Own Adventure things when I was, like, seven.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a paleontologist. But later on, I decided that I didn't actually want to get dirty.
....
for fucks sake, everest
Though in my case it had more to do with the appeal of Dinosaurs wearing off.
^does this mean i'm a clone too?
^^ oh
my
god
really
. . . I was on this planet first.
^ Join the club; apparently INUH's also in it.
I wanted to be a concert pianist.
Actually, that dream isn't out of my reach even now. I just have to get around to doing that.
"When I was kid, I wanted to be a paleontologist."
Same. Well, it tied with Oceanographer. I was obsessed with Bob Ballard and the Titanic when I was a kid.
I was the same way.
Then I discovered the US Military had fucking amazing fighter jets and I haven't looked back since.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a bachelor. Double meaning intended.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a game designer.
gave up on that dream pretty quickly, in retrospect
This.
Now I... don't want to do anything, I guess.
Because "Architect" is the coolest-sounding name for an occupation ever.
I also wanted to be a paleontologist when I was a kid.
This mean I'm a clone as well?
I wanted to be archaeologist. Then a cryptozoologist. Then a writer.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a lot of things. It makes me feel good that I realised one dream by becoming a reasonably decent swordsman.
Are you guys just fucking with me? >.>
Me too. Admittedly, Indiana Jones was very important too.
Off the top of my head, I've wanted to be an speed racer, astronaut, knight (you shut your goddamn hellmout, alex), cowboy (i reiterate), cockpuncher and actor.
then i realized i'm not good at anything but at hating things, so i decided to become a critic.
I'd imagine that hating everything would be a qualification.
>Me too. Admittedly, Indiana Jones was very important too.
Same here. I think I wanted to be a musketeer/pirate/knight as well but even at a young age I recognized them as what they were.
I wanted to be a cop at one point.
But my dream job since I was ten or so is the same as now, namely working as a Magic: the Gathering developer.
not designer? cuz your custom cards are pretty nifty, man.
No, I'm only allowed to hate men, if I were to become a cockpuncher, that is. I may be many things, but above all, I hate everything equally. Tis in the code of the critic. Alongside "Be as smug as you can be"
Nah man, it's called motherfucking dinosaurs. Every self-respecting little boy was absolutely in love with dinosaurs from about the age of 4 to teenagerdom, and I still think dinosaurs are amazing even if I no longer want to devote my life to studying them. :P
^ Also that.
One thing I realised is that sometimes, while some dreams are impossible in reality (for instance, being a knight), they're not necessarily impossible in the abstract. Ergo, they can be worth shooting for in relation to personal development. Literally learning to wield a sword is cool and all, but it's also a very visceral reminder of the kind of values embodied in the "perfect knight" -- compassion, humility, wisdom, so on and so forth. So I try my best to hold to those sorts of values, and the things I do in real life and the examples I take in history and fiction try to find the best compromise possible.
In context of internal image, a knight is a warrior gentleman of a chivalric era. I can't be that, but I can certainly examine my own views and actions and try to make them more appropriate for that archetype while also balancing that with the modern era and my own individuality. The same holds for any other example one could care to name, I think. So I don't really hold these dreams to be stupid if approached in terms of the values they represent. Someone who is stupid and poorly behaved and dresses up like a knight on the weekends as a focus for their internal dream misses the point, because that's never what the historical or fictional character was about -- a knight is first and foremost a servant of some kind of value or code. That's what really makes Batman the "Dark Knight", for instance, despite the fact he's actually a ninja detective and possibly insane.
Anyway, I guess all this stuff is pretty silly, but that's how I feel about the value of these archetypes. Children are very sensitive to what a character concept represents, even though they're generally fed simple versions. We all have to grow up, but that doesn't mean throwing out those values wholesale, and that means those symbols still find value and application themselves.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a policeman. And by now, I realized that the other kids were justified in laughing at me, when I said that.
But I can understand the "paleontologist" thing. Dinosaurs were the shit in the 90s, after all. I'm not sure whether Jurassic Park is the cause or a symptom, though.
When I was five or six, I wanted to be a pirate. Then I wanted to be a scientist (preferably an evil one!), and a little later afterwards I wanted to be a general.