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Wildcard Tuesday: The Dreams of a Long Lost Youth

It's Wildcard Tuesday! The November 19, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  is
Growing up, what career goals did you have or what dreams did you hope to accomplish? Did any of them come to be?
How many did you abandon or revise along the way?

We never outgrow our dreams,
as we mature
they become memories
of ancient desires
haunting our midnight hours.

When I was growing up, I wanted what every young girl of the fifties wanted. I wanted a husband, children, a white house with a white picket fence, and I wanted to be a working mother (all right most girls growing up in the 1950s probably did not want this). I wanted to be like my mother, who (in my eyes was super Mom) worked outside the home and kept a clean house as well. Mom worked as a waitress (food server) at Bob's Grill in Blackwell, Oklahoma. My grandparents helped, but at the time it was Mom who I thought did everything.

We never abandon our dreams,
they conceal themselves in our souls,
where they either
fester as unhealed wounds
or fuel
creativity's fires.

I am not sure when I gave up on that dream, but I know it was sometime between leaving grade school and graduating from high school. Suddenly that dream, that career, did not seem as important as it once was. Most of my friends, after I left grade school, were from broken homes and had encountered the divorce monster. I begin to think that blinded or one parent families were the norm and not the exception. One thing I am thankful for today, was that the dreams of my childhood never came true because it was an idealistic and unrealistic dream. If that dream had come true, my spiritual growth would have been curtails and my creativity atrophied.

The dreams of our long lost youth
either push us toward success
or become
failure's stumbling blocks;
we are the ones who decide
the type
of encouragement
our long lost dreams provide.

Thought of the Day: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain