https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 15 May 2026 23:05:16 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2198111 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:24:08 +0000 bunnylove08 2198111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to go to college in England. I never applied for any schools. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2198042 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:26:55 +0000 sarac 2198042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wish that I had spent a summer or more living in Russia after I graduated with my degree in Russian. I busted my butt to learn the language and then never used it, what a waste. I didn't want to spend the money or be apart from my husband or any of that, but now I really regret not pushing myself to do it before I had kids. We'll travel there someday, but still, not the same. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2198025 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:06:28 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2198025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to design houses, but was too lazy to truly improve my math skills to become an architect. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2195222 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 11:13:04 +0000 lovehoneybee 2195222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a lot of wanderlust when I was younger. I wanted to travel the world and take photographs for National Geographic or something. </p> <p>Then a hurricane came and I had to move to a new completely new place and starting my life over took priority. Then I met D, and next thing I know it's 10 years later and I'm working a very stationar job expecting my second child. I'm happy, but it's very very different than the life I thought I'd have. I feel like my 20 year old self would be gawking at my 30 year old self in complete unrecognition.</p> <p>I also really wanted to own my own cafe for a long time, but I thought that would take much time, commitment and money away from my family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2195185 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:48:02 +0000 snowjewelz 2195185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never studied abroad in college. </p> <p>I never lived alone and worked in the city (I thought I wanted that but realized how expensive it was) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2195182 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:45:47 +0000 lamariniere 2195182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HLK208: aww, thanks! :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2195172 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:35:04 +0000 looch 2195172@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MK0180: Me too! Looking back, I hadn't properly prepared my case, I kind of casually said I wanted to go abroad and my dad was like, umm no, you don't have a plan, you're not going. I should have gone with a program and outlined what I would be doing.</p> <p>But I made up for it by living abroad for 4 years.</p> <p>My long lost dream is never going to happen now, but I had thought in my mind that I would go to college, meet my future husband during orientation and get married a year out of college. It didn't turn out that way and has no way of happening now, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2195170 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:32:22 +0000 .twist. 2195170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@wonderstruck: Could have written your post myself! </p> <p>I had a scholarship to our countries leading hair/aesthetics school. I told my teachers to give it to someone else because I wasn't interested in attending secondary school immediately after high school. I wish I could go back and kick my ass and tell myself what a HUGE opportunity I would be giving up. </p> <p>I just wanted to have a fun summer/year off. Which didn't end up happening anyway and now I'm in a career position that isn't my dream and I have no idea what else I would/should do! Stupid, lazy, teenage asshole, I was! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2195125 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:59:56 +0000 MK0180 2195125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Studying abroad in college - I wanted to go to Nepal for a semester but the ex-boyfriend guilted me into staying. A-hole. Luckily DH loves to travel and lived in Korea for 2 yrs. When we have the means to we can't wait to take our kids out of the country. We haven't ruled out the possibility of living abroad as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2195103 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:32:59 +0000 catlady 2195103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to be a Disney Imagineer and design new attractions for the parks. I also wanted to write a novel. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2195061 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:52:52 +0000 HLK208 2195061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>As a kid, I dreamed of having important job when I grew up, like being a CEO of a big company or a dentist. I job shadowed a prosecuting attorney a few times throughout middle school and high school. Instead, I'm a SAHM...I keep trying to tell myself, maybe I'm raising the future POTUS :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2195058 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:52:06 +0000 MrsKoala 2195058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have always dreamed of living and raising kids abroad. My husband has no desire to do this at all so it will never be but I got a compromise in that he has promised to do what he can so that we can travel as a family as much as possible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2195055 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:49:19 +0000 HLK208 2195055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lamariniere: you take the most beautiful photos! Really, the type of photos that make me want to visit where you've been!! You should follow that dream :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2195046 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:45:41 +0000 LulaBee 2195046@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Also wanted to live in NYC and be an artist... got into a school up there but decided not to go because of a guy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194943 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:47:02 +0000 Ajsmommy 2194943@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine are almost the exact opposite of many PP's. In highschool/college/post college my plan was to marry my hs sweetheart, move back to our hometown and have babies. I would have been a SAHM. This would have happened too, except that my bf passed away. I ended up never moving back home and I grew my career..... finally met my dh 10 years later and finally started our family. I often feel like I'm living in a twilight zone. And I do think about what my life would have been like.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194933 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:04:48 +0000 lamariniere 2194933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cascademom: thanks! :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194931 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:53:46 +0000 cascademom 2194931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lamariniere: your pics of your kids are so good!! I love seeing them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194929 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:51:07 +0000 avivoca 2194929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted (still do) to be a meteorologist, but when I went to college I decided to do Ad/PR. Schools in Kentucky didn't offer atmospheric science at the time. Now they do, including the university in my city, but I'd have to completely start over and take out loans. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194928 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:36:15 +0000 artsyfartsy 2194928@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@wonderstruck: same here! I could have written this post. I was in a mood about it today too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194919 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 04:55:19 +0000 lamariniere 2194919@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For years I wanted to be a photojournalist or if not that, a fashion photographer. I chased photography dreams for a little while, but ended up going down a different path. Instead, I just get to take pictures of my kids. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194910 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 03:33:35 +0000 Cherrybee 2194910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I was 16, I wanted to be a Marine Biologist. I had picked out my course - even picked which University I wanted to go to - and was well on track for getting the grades I needed to get in. Then some stuff happened (long story) and I made different choices which didn't work out.... and I ended up with the life I have now. I often wonder what my life would be like if I had taken that path.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194907 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:28:32 +0000 Boogs 2194907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've always really wanted to start my own business with some products I have in mind, unfortunately money talks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194847 Sun, 31 May 2015 21:07:06 +0000 DesertDreams88 2194847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Backpacking across Europe during our 5 year anniversary summer (which would be this summer) ... But we decided starting our family mattered more. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194846 Sun, 31 May 2015 21:06:06 +0000 wonderstruck 2194846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was just being in a mood about this earlier today. It gives me some guilt because as a teen I had so many things I wanted to see and do, I can remember specifically thinking that I didn't want some boring life like I felt like my parents had. Yeah, my life is almost exactly like their. And it's a good life, and I'm happy, and I love my husbands and sons so much, but I'd be lying if I said that I never have what if sort of thoughts where I wonder what could have happened if I had chased my dreams instead of listening to everyone tell me that they were unrealistic. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194840 Sun, 31 May 2015 20:58:55 +0000 Torchwood 2194840@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I really wanted to be an astronaut. I still love astronomy and physics and quantum mechanics, but I wound up deciding that I didn't want to have to choose between the kind of commitment that would take and having a family that I could really devote myself to. Ultimately I didn't finish school anyway, but part of that was because I never figured out anything I wanted to do.</p> <p>Now I want to go up to Toronto and do the baking certification course at the Bonnie Gordon school there, and have a small baking business. That might actually happen once LO is old enough! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194828 Sun, 31 May 2015 20:32:22 +0000 mediagirl 2194828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to be a big shot TV director. Then I realized I didn't want to claw my way to the top and do shift work forever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194818 Sun, 31 May 2015 20:14:26 +0000 fancyfunction 2194818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In college I almost auditioned for chorus part a Broadway show but never did. I always wanted to live in NYC and accomplished that.<br /> Now I'd like to write a children's book but need both the time and motivation to do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194807 Sun, 31 May 2015 19:59:41 +0000 simplyfelicity 2194807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Moving to Seattle and becoming an editor and living in a really cool loft. Once I graduated, I felt disenchanted with publishing buy maybe that was an excuse. Anyway, I got into education and met my husband so I am very happy with that. I still have many other goals and dreams. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194801 Sun, 31 May 2015 19:49:26 +0000 hotchildinthecity 2194801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to be a journalist....that didn't really work out. But I did want to move to NYC and I did that :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/long-lost-dreams#post-2194800 Sun, 31 May 2015 19:48:48 +0000 cmomma17 2194800@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Auditioning for Riverdance! </p>