Remember What you Wanted To Be

On the way to work yesterday I saw a bumper sticker that said "Remember What you Wanted to Be".  I remember exactly what I wanted to be!  I wanted to be a cut throat business woman.  An attorney.  One that eventually shifted into Politics and wrote speeches that mattered and made a differance.  In my spare time I wanted to do modeling but only for products I loved and I wanted to be choosy.  I wanted to Summer in the Hamptons and write books because people would be beating down my door to hear what I had to say next.  I can't remember not wanting to be that!  In Kidergarten when all the other little girls were playing mom, I was playing Principal. When my friend Danny and I played house, I worked while he stayed home with the kids. 

I always kind of lived between reality and fiction in some odd in between world.  I wanted a grand life full of grand things and even if it was just in my imagination it was there!  I started college majoring in Criminal Justice and somewhere between the boys the bars and the books I decided Public Relations was more my cup of tea.  Maybe I wasn't supposed to be a cut throat attorney but I would still make a differance.  After several sales positions and a chance encounter with my current employer I landed in Human Resources and it fits. 

What's missing from the bumper sticker is the flip side of the coin, remembering what I didn't want to be.  I didn't want to be a mom or a wife, I didn't want to be ordinary! 

What I've learned is that everything I didn't want is exactly what I want to be when I grow up!  I love being a mom and a wife and that doesn't make me ordinary it makes me extrodinary!!  Sure I'm still waiting for someone to knock on my door and ask me to write a book but I'd end up being too busy playing in the fantasy world of 2 little boys I know helping them figure out what they want to be!!