Comments on: Secret Dreams

By: Stephany

Stephany — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:04:31 +0000

I want to write a column, too. I’m not interesting in the reporting side of journalism. It annoys me, quite frankly, and stunts my creativity. But writing a column seems like such a fun job to have! I have a lot of secret dreams, too. It’s fun to have them, even if you know they’re just dreams.

By: ExMi

ExMi — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:14:52 +0000

dreams are the answers to the questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.

i firmly believe that.

i hope you find all your dreams soon…..or that you’re lucky enough to have them find you! xx

By: Psych Babbler

Psych Babbler — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:04:33 +0000

Go for it! You can definitely turn dreams into reality! Especially something like writing a column, doing something in politics or living in NY. I guess you could do the whole rockstar thing too but it could take longer than the others…unless you go through American Idol or one of those shows…. :)

By: Spatzi

Spatzi — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:04:45 +0000

For the dreamer in you, check this out: (I think you will love it as much as I do!)

http://www.veryawesomeworld.com/awesomebook/inside.html

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:28:00 +0000

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having those fantasies! I call them fantasies because, as you smartly stated, they don’t really fit into your life plan; they’re not really dreams of yours in the sense of goals you hope to reach, but they are fantasies — dreams of another life that you don’t really want but like to imagine anyway.

I too wanted to spend at least a year living in NYC until I realized I just didn’t have the time for it; it just wasn’t where I was supposed to be. I followed another path, and that’s ok. I enjoy visiting once in a while and pretending I live there. :-)

I do write a column, the editorial in my company newsletter almost every month. It’s fun. I love it. I was a journalism major, and I wanted to be a reporter. I do freelance. And, I realized, you’re right again: getting paid to write kinda takes the fun out of it. LOL… maybe that’s why I started blogging!

Good luck with your dreams! Have fun with your fantasies!

By: Ally

Ally — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:21:29 +0000

I totally wanted to live in NYC when I was in my Felicity phase about ten years ago. Maybe you will be the first mediocre-clarinet-playing rockstar. Stranger things have happened. ;)

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:17:50 +0000

I like this. I think its awesome that you have ACHIEVED your dreams, so you get to have secret silly ones! That’s amazing.. :)

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:41:09 +0000

Weirdly enough, I ALSO want to write a column and be a rock star. It’s a strange combo but I think it could work.

Unfortunately we also have the inability to sing well in common. :)

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:07:45 +0000

I want to live in New York too. I think I will try it someday, even if it’s only for a little while. But definitely not when I’m a grad student. Being a poor college student is already hard enough, but a poor college student living in one of the most expensive cities in the U.S.? Pass.

And when I was 19, I totally wanted to be a rockstar! I even took guitar lessons for 6 months, but lost my attention span for it. =p

Good luck with your dreams!

By: MinD

MinD — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:43:44 +0000

I want to write a column, too, but I suppose for my life as a journalist, that makes a bit more sense.

I think we all have dreams like these. Mine are a bit more broad and pretty much surround any kind of job that requires minimal work, pays me a fortune, and allows me to sleep in every single day. Ah, now that would rock.

By: SillyJaime

SillyJaime — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:53:30 +0000

I’ve always wanted to be a rock star. I can sing, but I can’t play any instruments and I can’t read music (AT ALL, it’s a wonder how I survived 7 years of choir in school).

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:20:30 +0000

Sometimes I have dreams that I am part of a girl group like Destiny’s Child and it’s the most awesome thing ever! Except there’s always a point right before I wake up when I forget the choreography and have a panic attack. Not sure what that means . . .

By: Kahea

Kahea — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:14:23 +0000

I want to secretly be a rock star too! Well, sort of. I think I want to be a celebrity in general, but that makes me sound much more shallow than I want to sound, and celebrities don’t always have talent, but I really want to. This, however, is totally out of character. My best friend can’t even believe that I lip sync (lip sync, not even really sing!) in the shower! *sigh* Do you think everyone really secretly wants to be the center of attention?

By: Herding Cats

Herding Cats — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:41:40 +0000

I actually understand the rock star thing because I um, want to be on Broadway. Maybe that’s why I’m a teacher. Me = attention whore :D

By: phampants

phampants — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:09:39 +0000

“don’t let your dreams be dreams”

When I realized that last year, I started to make my dreams come true. Do it Ashley.

And yes, I want to live in NYC too. I need a change. I LOVE Chicago, but I think it’s time for me to go exploring.

By: Sophia

Sophia — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:56:43 +0000

You can be a rockstar professor! All the young nerds will consider you one! ;)

By: Allison Blass

Allison Blass — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:24:50 +0000

I go back and forth on whether or not I want a big blog. I mean, it would be so cool to win awards and feel the adoration of thousands (okay, maybe several dozen) but on the other hand, I love that I know who each and every one of my commenters are and you just don’t get that when you have 100 people commenting (or more).

If you want to get involved in politics but not be a politician, be a lobbyist or advocate. But for GOOD things like medical research and social justice and things like that. There are a lot of organizations who need people to meet with senators and representatives to help sway policy. I’ve done it for diabetes. It’s fun. Ish.

I live in NYC. I am a city person. I want to always live in a city until I have babies (and then I want OUT!). It’s a hard place to live but if you come, at least you will have some friends here already.

Being a rock star would be awesome. I can’t, sadly, can’t sing either.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:09:56 +0000

Hmmmm, these are all very good dreams and I hope you achieve some of them (especially the “being a rock star” one). I’ll share a thought on living in NYC, because I’ve always wanted to do that too. I’ve been considering what I would do if I don’t end up in a PhD program, and what cities I might move to after I leave here. Though I’ve always wanted to live in NYC, I think the idea of just moving there without something lined up or something definite like school is very daunting. While there are other big cities I think one can just go to, I don’t know if I personally could handle NYC on those terms.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:05:35 +0000

Believe me, you don’t even have to have political knowledge to write a political opinion piece in a newspaper. At least not around here. I’m not sure how you can be a rockstar, but you pretty much write a column every time you blog and if you start writing occasionally about politics then you’d be moving towards those dreams with little effort.

By: L.C.T.

L.C.T. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:51:14 +0000

I was thinking about this today actually. It’s not a secret dream as such, but I’ve decided I want to go to my first baseball game when I’m state-side this year!