Last Updated on March 5, 2024
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Children’s Dreams: The Paths We Choose and the Results We Achieve
Probably every child was at least once asked what kind of profession he wants to get when he grows up. And, naturally, the kid needed to have a ready set of answers, according to the opinion of the parents, his own dreams, the political, economic situation in the country and a lot of other factors. Then some of these childhood fantasies are forgotten, while others confidently follow the dream chosen in childhood.
Dreams, Just Dreams
To be honest, even school leavers do not always understand what they want to do in the future. They use online services to create perfect resumes. However, they still are confused sometimes. First of all, because they have very vague ideas about the chosen specialty and about what will be the daily work. A five-year-old child is a completely different story!
Kids often form their idea of an ideal profession in accordance with:
- The public opinion (when everyone wants to be cosmonauts).
- Their ideas about the easiest and pleasant profession (a pirate, actress, boss, president).
- What they lack in life, and they can get thanks to the work (a seller of ice cream or confectioner).
Such dreams can be called common and they rarely have a relation to the real profession.
Tendencies and Hobbies
Rarely, children have more specific dreams, which really correspond to the inclinations of their emerging character. For example, a child loves animals and is ready to take care of every wounded animal if it catches his eye. It is not surprising that in the future he will think about the profession of a veterinarian.
Even better, when these childhood addictions develop into hobbies, for example, music, dance or sports. Then the child does not just dream but prepares for the future profession from an early age. He understands from childhood what work is in the chosen direction and in his youth consciously decides whether he wants to do this all his life. It is already difficult to call this a dream – rather, it’s preparation.
The Dream Is the Way to Success
According to an online survey conducted by one recruiting site, only 15% of respondents relied on their childhood fantasies in choosing a profession. But, interestingly, the managers, business owners, and top managers are most often found among this 15 %.
We will not say how representative this survey is, but in general, such a trend can be understood. After all, a person is willing to work much more for his own dreams than for money or other motivators. In addition, he begins to prepare for the future profession since the early childhood.
Let’s Remember
Do you remember what profession you wanted to get in your childhood? But not just to obediently answer the question of parental guests, but did you really want with all your power? Based on the data of the mentioned study, one can come to the conclusion – there is an unambiguous connection between the professional realization of a man and his obvious, very strong childish desires to become someone (not even important whom).
This connection is certainly positive. The acute childish need for self-realization leads in the future to career successes and forms a strong motivation for achievements. Undoubtedly, intellectual abilities, an ability to communicate with people, the courage of decisions, leadership qualities are also necessary. And we do not always become exactly what we wanted. But the aspiration is important.
The intense need for self-fulfillment demands satisfaction. But all children at one time or another want to become someone, but not all become great professionals. This is true. We are only talking about a very high degree of expressiveness of a desire. By the way, in the childhood, General de Gaulle madly wanted to become an alpinist; Mother Teresa dreamed of treating people; Albert Einstein went mad at the age of 5-6 with the desire to be an artist; Elvis Presley wanted to be an artist of the circus.
It’s Not Too Late to Change Everything
Do you remember how everyone dreamed of their long-awaited freedom and power in their childhood? How we dreamed of eating ice cream every day, walking in winter without a hat, playing and fooling around instead of cleaning, laughing impetuously when we wanted and where we wanted. We lost many dreams along the way, we learned to draw energy when you do your work well and from the rare trips to the sea.
In fact, nothing is too late to change, because these dreams are alive, they can be realized, you can reconsider this story easily. And tell yourself at any time that we have been carrying a heavy burden for too long and forgot about the ease. We heard many voices in our heads regarding “what do you do for a living?”, lost ourselves, worried and doubted. And that’s why we deviated from our route.
The opportunities that we so brightly saw in our childhood have not gone away, they are alive. We just forgot about them for a while, and you can remember them at any time and find yourself in a situation when you love your job.
After all, right now you can stop and ask yourself: “Who am I? What do I feel? Where am I and what do I want right now?”. And right now, do it.
Concluding
Children’s dreams have two sides of the coin. Remembering your childhood dreams and following them is very useful. On the other hand, it is good to keep in your pocket a few hopes “in reserve.” In order that in case the main dream collapses, you could switch to the secondary, and not mourn the failed career.
Maybe the “spare” dream for testing will be much better than “basic” (remember the examples that we have already talked about – this is the case). As Bill Gates said: “Not all dreams come true, I’ve dreamed of becoming a cook in my childhood, but it did not work out”.
Do you understand what he is talking about? To follow the childhood dream is cool when it really is your destiny. In rare cases, this happens. But if your destiny is different, it is better to keep your dream just as a memory of your childhood.
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