Childhood Dreams and Desires

When we are young and growing up, we are full of dreams. We have so many ideas and so many dreams for ourselves. One day we want to become a Doctor and on another we want to be a Lawyer. We behave as if we will rule the World and we know it all. That's a very good feeling, right? A high level of confidence in self. Now as I have aged up and when I interact with the younger generation and see that same spark in them, I remember that I too had that spark once upon a time, to conquer the world and make a name for self in it.

My Mother was a School Teacher and when I was young, I was very heavily influenced by her profession. When I would go to her school sometimes and I would see how the children would surround her, I would feel that she is the most important lady in the whole world in that moment. I liked the way she got attention of all the children and the way she was in total command. In her personal life she was a very weak lady with her emotions but when she would step in to the school, she was all together a different personality, the one with full confidence and power and that would make me feel that the profession of a Teacher is one of the most powerful professions. Not only that, her ex-students also reaching out to her with respect, would also make me feel that it was just not about the present but also a profession that would leave a lifelong impression.

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And that is where I had decided that I wanted to be a Teacher, I was very strong on this, that I want to teach and make a difference to the Children in their life and leave my mark in their life. Someone who they will remember lifelong. When I got into the University, I started giving tuitions to students of primary classes. In those moments I realized that I was good with Children, and they easily gelled with me, but one thing I noticed and my mom would also say that I was too soft with them. I could never put my foot down with them and many times they would take me for a ride. My Mom would tell me, that as a teacher sometimes you have to be strong with them and not allow them to take over you, but I could never do that and that possibly made me realize that I was not meant for this profession.

It was quite disappointing for me, because till then I had never thought of doing anything else, and then gradually I started losing interest too. The other thing that I always aspired since childhood was to travel the world. It happens at that age; you want to do this and that and everything. Later I got lured to Airline jobs and there I succeeded I managed to get a job with Swiss Air and with that I travelled places fulfilling my dreams of travelling the world. But the spark of Teaching was somewhere still there within me. After 15 years of working with Swiss I then moved to Soft-skill Trainings and there I got an opportunity to fulfill my teaching dream. I enjoyed that job thoroughly. Again, it took me to places, which was another delight because now my dream of travelling and teaching both were getting fulfilled together.

I guess our dreams and desires if the intention is strong, they do get fulfilled in some or the other way. I could not become a School Teacher but I did become a Soft-skills Trainer and that made me fulfill my dream.
So what was your dream as a child and did it get fulfilled?

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