"When I Grow Up....."

by Chelsea 8 contributors - September 10, 2008 + Add To This Guide

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I find kids so amusing, for many reasons; their innocent enthusiasm, they're ability to speak the truth (since that's all they know how to do, even if it isn't the "nicest" thing to say), the way they DREAM and BELIEVE that no matter what anyone tells them, they'd be able to be a T-Rex when they grow up, if that's what they want to be. Whether it's ridiculous or it's the way we should continue thinking in order to fulfill out dreams who knows? Here's a guide to the way kids dream....what did YOU want to be when you "grew up?"

I wanted to be a FAIRY PRINCESS

“Chelsea, you need to put on your seatbelt….” this was a constant battle between my Mother and I. I was a kid who liked to stretch and roll around in the back seat, put my feet on the ceiling, lay on the floor….etc. All horrifying and dangerous forms of behavior, I was a participant.

“But MA, I don’t need to.”

“Why don’t you need to put on a seatbelt Chelsea?!”

“Because I’m a fairy. If we get hit, I will just flick away.”

I truly believed that I would just FLICK AWAY.

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A Prima Ballerina

Yes, I wore the point shoes and gained the callouses on my feet. Still proud of them to this day. I aspired to be the next Prima and dance on my toes forever. Then I kicked off the shoes and gravity took over and I fell in love with modern dance.

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I wanted to be a lighthouse keeper

Actually, I still do, and YES they do still exist some places! I fell in love with lighthouses some time in high school, specifically with the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse seen here. I actually felt like I had some connection there, like in another lifetime I was its keeper. I was like 16 or something. For 2 years in high school, even though I was social and liked people, I told everyone my career ambition was to be a lighthouse keeper by myself. Such a loner…

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: by GillianS 09/18/2008 Reply

I love the “princess” “ballerina” “doctor”…“writer”…picture. Oh, how I relate to this. Though I probably would have to put Miss America somewhere in there too…

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Chelsea

Manhattan, New York

Writer. Coast Hopper. Perpetual Dreamer and Achiever. Student of life and Manhattan adventuress... And just in case you're wondering, gangsta rap made me do it.